No Sailing page is complete without a weather service, the UK Met Office is as good a source as I know - one day when I'm rich and famous I'll buy them a window for their office to improve the accuracy ;-)
WCS Marine an excellent alternative to the Met Office - they are an
independent weather forcaster in the UK.
You can also subscribe to their free weekend weather Email service - they send you the weekend forecast every Thursday - just
send a blank email to wcsMarine
The UK Met. Office home page
UK Inshore Waters
Forecast and the UK Shipping Forecast
Today's atmospheric chart from "Top Karten" a German site that publishes the UK Met Office maps.
Other charts are availab le from Bari University (Italy) on its Chart & Fax page
Wind Charts for today & the next 6 days by sea area plus loads of other good weather information.
Slightly annoying pop up/under windows on this site but a small price to pay for good information. www.WeatherOnLine.co.uk
Wind Chart for Thames / Southern North Sea Area
NOAA - The American "National Oceanic and Atmoshperic Administration" has a site with live reports from the UK Weather Stations.
European Centre for Medium Range Forecast provides a good 5 day forecast amongst loads of other useful weather data
BBC Weather Centre
CNN Weather
Francis Beaumont's East
Anglian Weather page has a good collection of links for the area
Frank Singleton's Weather Site for Sailing looks like an excellent site for Weather Forecasts and Advice for all Sailors and Cruising Yachtsmen
The UK Sailing Index also has a good set
of links to UK weather resources
Various other links from a US university site
The met office also offers an excellent service where they can send you the forecast via SMS to your Mobile Phone I've used it & it works !
For the ultimate "NOWcast" check a web cam
Books on Navigation can be bought on-line via Amazon.co.uk
Belfield Software - A neat little Tide Plotter software for PC and Pocket PC (e.g. iPAQ) - really neat to be able to look up the tide in the port you are going to on your iPAQ while at sea.
Pangolin good downloadable calculator
Arachnoid kind of an interesting site with useful tools for all purposes