Bouyweather
Submitted by Mike17 on Sun, 2018-10-07 08:25
For those that have paid for the premium Bouyweather is it worth it?
Is the info any better than the free sites?
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Stevo81
Posts: 1278
Date Joined: 16/04/12
I didnt renew my previous
I didnt renew my previous premium subsription. I still have a look at Bouyweather but mainly use Fishranger and Meteye
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walloped
Posts: 191
Date Joined: 08/04/12
I go 50km off shore regularly
I go 50km off shore regularly and it, in combination with Meteye, is rarely too wrong. The wind direction is just about always correct and the wind strength is pretty good too. How much is your life worth? How much are your fishing buddies lives worth?
Mike17
Posts: 323
Date Joined: 30/06/13
Really
It's not about the money at all i'm more interested in it's accuracy.
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black gen
Posts: 762
Date Joined: 13/04/11
Buoyweather worth every
Buoyweather worth every cent
as walloped said I find it very accurate and I use it along with meteye which is also spot on more than not
ranmar850
Posts: 2702
Date Joined: 12/08/12
I was a long time user of Buoyweather
When I was making my living from the ocean, I used it extensively, as did many other crayfishermen, as we were particularly interested in swell. But I haven't used it for a long time. I found fishranger pretty good, and supported them with a financial contribution when they needed funding recently.
However, my latest go to is Windy.com. I was put onto it by one of the wetliners up here, who has been using it ll year, and reckons it's the best wind forecaster he has seen, and he's been doing this all his life. The layer that first opens up shows sea level winds, and you can go forward up to 9days, and get an hour by hour forecast of direction and strength, using arrows and colourshading. I was watching it in the week leading up to our recent Shark Bay trip, it kept changing, then settled on the day before we left, and the 4 day forecast was spot on.
Now there is more than one app called Windy, and you need to get the right one. A mate has a different one, doesn't look nearly as good. get the one with the icon as shown in the sceenshot below if you want to do it on your phone, also available as a desktop site.
here is s sample screen shot of the weather at the moment. The real beauty of this for many users will be to bring them to an understanding of just low heat lows affect the wind on the water on the west coast. I see complaints all the time of how they have forecast an easterly, and you get a southerly and every one is .." useless bastards, can't they get it right by now, not worth the money they are paid, ..." etc. if I ever bother to comment on this, I'll point out how a mass of air only has to move a few miles to completely change the wind, and this mapping shows you just how it happens--and it's usually a lot more complex than you see on the tv weather map. And you can zoom right in too, picture just gets more and more detaailed.
BlueKiaser
Posts: 422
Date Joined: 22/04/15
+1 from me for windy.com
It's been my go to weather forecaster for fishing for about a year now (thanks to the lads at 2Oceans in Busselton who had/have it on their big screen behind the counter).
You can pinpoint the area you intend to fish and it shows the expected/calculated conditions for that precise place.
That is, it can sometimes show vastly different forecasts for land, 2miles out, 10miles out or 30miles out. I like using the gust predictions to give me a proper respect of the likely conditions.
The desktop website gives better information and details than the mobile options. ( www.windy.com )
And I find I even use it to get a fairly good idea of possible weather in up to two weeks time, by watching/playing the larger scale models of the weather systems moving in the lower Southern Hemisphere.