Hi. I recently purchased and setup a outernet receiver. The reason was to use it with GRIB weather data. I have read a lot of forums and websites on the topic. I however am having a tough time figuring out how to receive the latest GRIB files, where they are put, and how to view them. Now, I saw in the librarian a GRIB file folder was created and some weather data was downloaded. I also see there is data with current projections. Are those the files I want to look at? how do I see them? I notice they are in GRIB2 file format and all of the programs I am finding to try and open the data only do “normal” GRIB files, not GRIB2. Please help. Thanks
Syed
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Our own default viewer is under the Weather folder. Is that showing up for you yet?
Seasalt
3
From my understanding, the Grib2 Viewer Outernet uses is the one provided by NOAA. It is an incredible piece of weather forecasting, prediction and real time display.
It takes approx 1 mb of data a day.
The animated gribs and gribb2 are not like you are used to as a mariner. Which is basically a series of arrows showing a wind layer out over a chart.
It may be possible in the future to superimpose the Outernet Grib2 data over say OPENCPN navigation package.
sam_uk
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I think at the moment i’m getting two seperate things
- A weather globe app that stores its data in JSON
- A set of Grib files stored in /grib2 which aren’t used by the weather app? But could be downloaded and used in an external app?
