[Paddlewise] Improved Buoy and Ship Weather Reports

This may be old news to others, but it was new to me.  Turns out that NOAA now
has added a feature to the information available from any given weather buoy: 
weather information from any reporting station within a 200 nm radius (shorter
radius figures can be selected).

Try, for example, the La Perouse Bank buoy (about 60 nm NW of Cape Flattery,
WA) (http://www.nws.fsu.edu/B/buoy?station=46206) and then scroll down to the
bottom of the page.

When I tried this tonight, there were reports from the surrounding buoys, and
several ships -- one of which was offshore from me here in Astoria.  Location
maps are included as part of the suite of options for each buoy or ship.

This service is labeled "experimental," and NOAA indicates that the various
Coast Guard station reports will be incorporated in the near future.

-- 
Dave Kruger
Astoria, OR

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