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Weather, tides and travel

Weather
BBC Weather Centre Online
Access to city and regional forecasts, etc.

Forecast Weather for the UK from the Met. Office
Latest issue of the definitive weather report.

Latest European Infra-red satellite picture
See the weather coming.

Met Office homepage
Gives access to regional, inshore and shipping forecasts.

OnlineWeather.com
Offering national, regional,city and sailing forecasts.

Shipping Forecast from the Met. Office
Attention all shipping ....

RTE Weather Forecast for Ireland

RTE Sea area Forecast for Ireland
Travel
AA Traffic News
Traffic information.

Frixo
"At Frixo we provide current Road Traffic Reports. It's a free service aimed at giving you up-to-date traffic news and information. Frixo specialises in traffic news and reports making it easy to use whether you're about to make a journey or out and about using our wireless service. Please select a region/city (or motorway you want to travel on followed by the direction) then just click Get Report to get the latest updates and traffic information."


Multimap
Maps, including street maps, from UK postcodes or grid references.

RAC home page
With up to date traffic information.

The UK Street Map page
Address searching and street map facilities for the UK.
Tides

NB.
You may find that you get different results from these sites - don't rely on one unless you're sure of it!
EasyTide
From the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office,
the world's premier supplier of navigational charts and publications. EasyTide offers tidal predictions for over 6000 ports worldwide, the service also has many other features including 7-day tidal predictions and high/low water heights and times.

Liverpool Tide Tables

National Tidal & Sea Level Facility
Tidal predictions for selected UK and Irish ports from the Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory.

WWW Tide and Current Predictor
Excellent tide prediction tables for thousands of sites all over the world from the University of South Carolina using their XTide program. Used to include some 70+ sites in UK and Ireland, but now UK Hydrographic Office have asserted copyright, and they've had to remove UK sites. One to watch!

Yachting and Boating World Tide Tables
For 23 UK and Ireland ports, for the next 2 weeks.

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