Vanuatu Marine Weather Forecasts

Quick Weather Analysis for Vanuatu

1. Check todays satellite analysis chart

2. Check the local Vanuatu Meteo marine forecast.

3. Check an animated 9 day overview of the weather on Windy.com.

This amazing global weather animation gives you an instant overview of the winds, wind gusts, temperature, pressure, cloud cover, rain, lightning storms, humidity, waves, ocean currents, and sea surface temperature, for 9 days. If you click on the Play arrow on the bottom left you will see the animated weather systems move through the next 9 days. Or click on a day and time to stop the animation then. Click on a location for deails of that location including graphs of wind, temperature, rainfall, waves, sunset and sunrise. In the local data graphs you can "compare forecasts" to get an idea of how predictable the weather is. You will love this site no matter where you are on the planet.

4. Check the 7.5 day NAVGEM and GFS forecasts. Ignore google's joke (it does not trust the US Dept. of Defence) Select the button for the precipitation and sealevel map loop and while it is loading right click on the "compare GFS Oceania" link on the top left of the loop page and select open in new tab. Then you can compare the 7 day forecast using two supercomputer models..

5. Get the latest SW Pacific Satellite image.

6. Tropical Tidbits - During the cyclone season you can check a summary of current storm information and a composite of projected tracks on this site. Best of the Tropical Storm Sites.

Long Range Weather Forecasts
for planning passages

Weather Forecasts for Passage making from Predict Wind.

The following links are listed in order of sites I find provide the most accurate long term predictions.

Tropical Tidbits

Meteo France Cyclone Prediction

US NAVY Aus/NZ area - NAVGEM Model
(You can now compare maps from two global models from each day's map page).
US NAVY Aus/NZ area - GFS Model
US NAVY public website
US NAVY tropical cyclone center

Online Weather for Aus/NZ
UK Online Sailing weather (wind gribs for a week)

Multi-models on Weatherzone (7 models+ special Australian model).

WindFinder Noumea
WindFinder Noumea Area Local Winds and Weather

GFS 10 day sea level animated loop
NOAA Wind and Wave Forecasts
IGES 144hr 6 day forecast Aus/NZ
MetVuw.com 7 day sailing forecast from NZ