{"id":482,"date":"2020-12-14T16:57:37","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T16:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/?p=482"},"modified":"2021-01-13T12:49:09","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T12:49:09","slug":"meteorology-weather-at-sea-sources-of-meteorological-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/2020\/12\/14\/meteorology-weather-at-sea-sources-of-meteorological-information\/","title":{"rendered":"Meteorology (weather at sea) &#8211; sources of meteorological information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sources of meteorological information available to the mariner include the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Maritime coastal radio stations (Walvis Bay, Luderitz, Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, East London, Durban). These provide storm warnings and weather forecasts.<\/li>\n<li>Cape Naval Radio (Silvermine, Cape Town). They provide facsimile weather maps and weather forecasts on behalf of the SA Weather Service.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cNavtex\u201d stations (Walvis bay, Cape town, Port Elizabeth, Durban). They provide an MF service giving weather bulletins and navigation warnings in Narrow Band Direct Printing (NBDP) format.<\/li>\n<li>Satellite (GMDSS \u201cSafetynet\u201d \u2013 on \u201cInmarsat C\u201d). They provide the same information as the \u201cNavtex\u201d stations. Inmarsat C is an international communication satellite system.<\/li>\n<li>SA Weather Service (Pretoria). They provide weather information by telephone.<\/li>\n<li>Port Meteorology Offices (situated at the main airports in Durban and Cape Town).<\/li>\n<li>Port Control Office\/Centre.<\/li>\n<li>The meteorological instruments carried onboard vessels.<\/li>\n<li>The watch-keepers\u2019 observations of the conditions of the atmosphere and sea conditions.<\/li>\n<li>Weather atlases (for climatic information and weather patterns).<\/li>\n<li>Regional and national commercial radio stations.<\/li>\n<li>National television stations.<\/li>\n<li>Local newspapers.<\/li>\n<li>The internet.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sources of meteorological information available to the mariner include the following: Maritime coastal radio stations (Walvis Bay, Luderitz, Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, East London, Durban). These provide storm warnings and weather forecasts. Cape Naval Radio (Silvermine, Cape Town). They provide facsimile weather maps and weather forecasts on behalf of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,103,104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3-meteorology-weather-at-sea","category-10-3-1-meteorology-for-mariners","category-10-3-1-1-sources-of-meteorological-information"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":552,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions\/552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}