Squid mobile is a free, effective and but the perfect and maximum complete requester and viewer of grib documents (climate files).
now available for a big audience of sailors. It doesn’t remember in case you are an occasional cruiser or a eager racer, if you are an off-shore solo navigator or coastal dinghy sailor. Squid has all of the forecasts information you need, selected for his or her best feasible accuracy, protecting any location, any playground around the world.
squid cellular app has been developed through greatcircle. Selected through the maximum worrying navigators considering that 2010, on board nearly each crusing boat, even as tempting and frequently succeeding, a international pace crusing report formalized by way of the wssrc.
in 2015 squid turned into the one of a kind provider of weather information for the volvo ocean race, the reliable companion presenting weather facts for three hundred boats for the duration of the rolex fastnet race, participated inside the transpac and atlantic and north-east passage information… and still brought daily thousands passionate sailors with excessive decision forecasts and observations.
primary features:
models: gfs, ecmwf, hirlam, arome, arpege, gem, gcwf, nam …
multi version viewer to evaluate and examine con – divergences
routing and manner-point editor with : bearing compass, database of predominant cruising and racing boat polars, roadbook reporting, cloud routing and multiple avenue comparisons.
up to ten days forecasts via steps of 1 or 3 hours
direct grib download or as mail attachment for clean sharing and beginning in different packages
multi-version meteograms for easy comparisons (mslp and wind in v1)
custom designed views via coloration gradients, isolines, barbs and arrows.
combining both cpu and graphical processor for clean animations
well matched with iridium cross!®
available variables:
– atmospheric
wind, 10m, 925 hpa, and gusts
mslp
rainfall
cloud cowl
cape
relative humidity
temperature
– oceanic
currents, route and force
sea kingdom, swell, windwaves, height and course
