PredictWind — Marine Forecasts

PredictWind — Marine Forecasts

By PredictWind Limited

  • Category: Weather
  • Release Date: 2012-01-03
  • Current Version: 5.6.0
  • Adult Rating: 4+
  • File Size: 27.23 MB
  • Developer: PredictWind Limited
  • Compatibility: Requires iOS 15.6 or later.
Score: 4.7
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From 29,540 Ratings
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Description

Accurate marine weather forecasts and powerful tools utilizing wind, wave and currents, save you time, keep you safe and ensure you get the most out of every day on the water. Access all of the world’s top ranking forecast models for reliable and accurate wind and weather data, including ECMWF, SPIRE, UKMO, GFS and more. Our very own PWG & PWE models offer incredible accuracy and a record-breaking 1km resolution showing wind in detail. View high resolution marine weather maps for wind, gust, CAPE, wave, rain, cloud, pressure, air temperature, sea temperature, ocean data and solunar. Suitable for sailing yacht, powerboat and any other marine weather activity. In addition to marine forecasts, PredictWind also provides a suite of powerful marine weather tools to save you time and keep you safe at sea using Wind, Wave, Tidal and Ocean currents. Weather Routing takes your start and end points then calculates your route factoring in tides, currents, wind and wave data, depth and your Sailing Yacht or Powerboats unique dimensions to give you the best route for comfort or speed. Departure Planning quickly summarizes the forecast marine weather conditions you’ll encounter along your route if leaving on day 1, 2, 3, or 4. Use this data to select the perfect departure date, every time for your Sailing Yacht or Powerboat. ADDITIONAL FEATURES - Daily Briefing: Powerful marine weather data condensed into a simple text forecast. - Maps: High resolution forecasts maps with animated streamlines, wind barbs or arrows. - Tables: The ultimate dashboard for detailed analysis of Wind, Wave, Rain and more. - Graphs: Compare multiple marine forecasts at the same time. - Live Wind Observations and Webcams: Know what’s happening with the weather right now at your local spot. - Local Knowledge: Hear about the best marine spots, amenities and activities at your destination. - Weather Alerts: Set your preferences then get alerts when conditions are just the way you like them for Wind, wave and other parameters. - Ocean Data: See what’s happening under the waves with ocean and tidal currents, and sea temperature. - GPS Tracking: Get a free customized GPS tracking page for your blog or website showing wind data overlaid. - AIS Data: View over 280,000 vessels worldwide on the AIS network to see marine traffic.

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Reviews

  • Wind rose a hit

    5
    By Mike1957dog
    Thanks for a new way to guess the weather. It’s always a surprise when you get there and you get what you get. Sailing is like golf. You can learn to do it in a short time. Then you spend the rest of the time trying to do it well. PredictWind is another tool in the belt. Mike

  • Worth every dime!

    5
    By Float On
    This app can literally save your life. Easy to read, and understand.

  • Re-packaged Free Data

    1
    By Jamie5838
    It’s a lot of money for publicly available data in a fancy interface. They also do not offer any refunds for services charged. If they automatically renew your subscription. It will count towards future purchases. Their proprietary models are inaccurate, in my experience. So at that point you are just using an interface for publicly available data from providers like GFS/ ECMWF. If you purchase equipment from them like a YB3i unit, you are locked into purchasing their services, both airtime and forecasts. You are not permitted to download your own tracking data. From PredictWind customer support: “ The YB3i unit you purchased from PredictWind is preprogrammed to collect position reports hourly and send them directly to PredictWind every 2 hours. This cannot be modified, and for the unit to do this function, you need to pay the $20/month.” If possible, I’d like to move away from PredictWind and move to Yellowbrick. Apparently this is not possible. “ If you want to see your tracking data, you must purchase weather forecasts. If you want to export your tracking data you must pay $49 in developer time.” Update 10-13-24: they did offer my tracking data for “free” as a one-time deal as a result of this review. According to the head service manager, (2 years later) you can transfer the YB3i. I have not tried that yet, but I will likely be attempting this in the near future.

  • Renting my tools is a nonstarter

    2
    By captain AppleBoy
    I want to own my tools; especially critical ones that could either keep me alive or get me killed. SASS is an asinine paradigm. 😡

  • Beware of deceptive pricing

    1
    By CompSciPhd
    I sprung for the $249/quarter subscription because I had a difficult passage to make where weather information was critical. After the passage was completed, I forgot to cancel my subscription. Without any advance notice, PredictWind charged my credit card an additional $249. A more customer-focused (ethical) company would have given some advance notice, but no. Ok, my bad — I should have remembered to cancel the service. I then went to the site to discontinue the auto billing, and I found that the only way is to “downgrade” to the free service, which I did. Now I am helping a friend do another difficult passage and I find that I cannot use the professional features of the site, even though I paid for them. Evil. I swear, this company will never,ever get another penny from me.

  • Love this app

    5
    By Wicked Wanda 1961
    I have been using this app for 5 years now and you can always count on it’s accuracy.

  • Interfacing with B&G

    2
    By Ragpacker
    I purchased a standard edition (as that is what the AI chat box said I needed) to interface with my B&G Zeus3 MFD. Everytime I would try and login on the MFD I always got wrong user name or password. I could login on my phone or computer with the same credentials without issue but it will not connect on B&G.

  • Good but realize the limitations

    3
    By Indolent58
    Predictwind gives mariners easy access to the world’s leading weather models. It’s easy to use and well laid out. It also wildly oversells what it can really do for you. Global weather models do not account for many local factors that shape the weather you actually experience and are only really useful in combination with other information, especially professional meteorological forecasts. So features like weather routing should be taken with a shaker of salt since a carefully computed optimal route is useless if the actual wind is 50 degrees off from the predicted direction. So I’m glad I have it but it’s just another data point rather than a reliable predictor of weather.

  • Great resource

    5
    By SteamBoat 2
    I often check this site while on the water to monitor it’s accuracy. I find it is very accurate. As fishermen on Lake Michigan know, you can never have enough good intel.

  • Seas the Day

    4
    By caprec
    Need better information on waves

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