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We got fed up not having our weather and other kitesurf related
bookmarks with us when we weren't in the office. So we made a
Web page, and hope it helps more than us plan the next trip to
the beach. UK biased, but with sites for France, Belgium, South Africa and some others lower down.
If you find any broken or new weather sites, please email
us so we can add them.
Usefull Links
Forums: BKSA
- KiteForum
- kite-surf.com
 Tides: by
the BBC (eg SW UK) - Clickable
map
Surf report and forecasts - Global - UK
UK LIVE Wind Weather Web Sites
HOTLIST - xcweather & guru
  Map with wind speed and direction.
National Data Buoy Centre - Readings
Cornish Web Cams
Cornish - Newquay & Perranporth spot info with forecasts
Cornish - FistralCam - has current and forecast weather
Windwatcher.net - Current conditions around the UK & surf spot info !
Weather bouys around the UK - Current Marine Conditions around the UK.
Hayling Island - Zero gravity shop has got more weather info than you'll ever need !
Poole Harbour - speed, direction and other weather info
Chichester - speed, direction and sea state
Whitstable - from Whitstable Windsurfing shop.
Worthing - web cam and wind details
Sheerness - web cam and weather details
Shoreham - with last 50 minutes detail.
Hastings (Camber Sands) - with archive ...
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UK FORECASTS
1 day - Shipping Forecast - Met office.
1 day - Inshore / Coastal Forecast - Met office. (2nd Version, N Cornwall)
1 & 2 Day, PA Weather Centre - Southern half of UK.(can select other regions)
2 to 90 day forecasts - Met Check. Can be for a postcode or UK county.
2 day - Met Check (forecast for every 3 hours for the next 2 days) - Set to Kent.
 3 day - Met animation, South West,
3 day - BBC Wind animation
3 day - Sailing Forecasts
5 day - From 3 day BBC Wind animation put in your town or postcode
- eg Hunstanton, Whitstable, Rye (Camber Sands), Hayling Island and Poole.
6 day charts from Bracknell
1 to 6 days for S & SE of England - Use the table on the right to choose what day and time in the next 6 days you want to have a wind forecaste for. Then the menu on the left to zoom in on a specific bit of the SE of England coast, eg select Channel to get the South Coast or North Sea for Norfolk. - Sent in by Sven @ Oceanside - www.oceanside.co.uk
EU - 10 day charts for W. Europe - Unisys Weather
- Unisys weather index page Unisys Weather_ MRF Model Forecasts
GLOBAL - 10 day - Wind Guru - locations around the world incl UK |
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France - LIVE Wind Weather Sites
France map with wind speed and direction.
Med with wind speed and direction.
France map of beach Web cams
France - Narbonne Plage Web cam
France - Collioure Web cam (past Leucate, towards Spain)
France - Forecasts
Map with wind speed and direction - Meteo France
Langeudoc Roussilon - (W Med coast) - click for 4 days - Meteo France
Med coast - 6, 12, 18 & 24 hour forecasts. - Meteo France
Med coast - Windfinder.com for 48 hours |
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South Africa
Blouberg, Kenilworth
- Live feeds tp menu for graphs of last few hours / days, left for other beaches)
Sea level synoptic chart
Live coastline feeds
SA - coastal shipping forecast
Cape Town - 5 day with am & pm wind
Cape Town - 5 day - Travelocity
Cape windsurf & kitesurf spots
Cape Town beaches summary |
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Belgium - LIVE Wind Weather Sites
Knokke Duinbergen - web cam, wind & direction
Zeebrugge - RustyHouse web cam from the beach hut
Zeebrugge - RustyHouse web cam log for last few hours
Zeebrugge - wind speed & direction updated every minute !
Web cams along the Belgian coastline |
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Other Web site wind portals
- A1 Surf - awesome UK weather portal
- ColdSwell - also has Web Cam's & wave heights
- Weather Jack - great UK portal for current and forecast conditions.
- Weather links - incl webcams, wind, waves
- UK weather links (and some EU ones at the end)
- UK & EU Web cams
- UK & EU forecast links
- Kitestuff - UK wind and kite links
- Boathow - boats, sailing and weather resources
- WeatherForSport.com
- Weather Portal |
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Some Global Sites
Global Weather portal - airports
World Wide Weatehr - intellicast
Travelocity - Santiago, Chile Weather Forecast
NY Weather
NEW YORK CITY, New York Forecast by Intellicast.com
Global Weather Links suplied by www.lonasport.de |
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| Beaufort |
knots |
mph |
kph |
Observations |
| 0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Tree
leaves don't move; smoke rises vertically; sea is calm, mirror
like |
| 1 |
1-3 |
1-3 |
1-5 |
Tree leaves don't move; smoke drifts
slowly; Direction of wind shown by smoke, not by vane; sea is
lightly rippled. |
| 2 |
4-6 |
4-7 |
6-11 |
Tree leaves rustle; flags wave slightly;
Vanes show wind direction; small wavelets or scale waves. |
| 3 |
7-10 |
8-11 |
12-19 |
Leaves and twigs in constant motion;
small flags extended; long unbreaking waves |
| 4 |
11-16 |
13-18 |
20-29 |
Small branches move; flags flap;
waves with whitecaps. |
| 5 |
17-27 |
19-24 |
30-38 |
Small trees sway; flags flap and
ripple; moderate waves with many whitecaps. |
| 6 |
22-27 |
25-31 |
39-50 |
Large branches sway; umbrellas used
with difficulty; flags beat and pop; larger waves with regular
whitecaps. |
| 7 |
28-33 |
32-38 |
51-61 |
Sea heaps up, white foam streaks;
whole trees sway; difficult to walk; large waves. |
| 8 |
34-40 |
39-46 |
75-86 |
Twigs break off trees; moderately
high sea with blowing foam. |
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