Tag: NOAA
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How to Use Windy and NOAA to Read Weather for Sailing
A Beginner Sailor’s Guide to Making Safer, Smarter Decisions In my last post, I covered how to read the weather for beginner sailors. In this post, I will dive a little deeper into a couple of the weather tools I mentioned, including Windy and NOAA. Reading the weather for sailing is completely different than reading…
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A Beginner Sailor’s Guide to Reading the Weather
Why marine forecasts aren’t the same as land weather—and how to stay safe at sea When we first moved aboard full-time, I thought I understood the weather. I’d checked forecasts my whole life—rain, cold fronts, thunderstorms, wind. Easy, right? Wrong. Reading the weather for sailing is an entirely different skill than reading the weather on…