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Photo by: John Ridsdel "Storm approaching Manila Bay"
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WEATHER
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The sailing weather around the Philippines has two distinct seasons: North East monsoon "Amihan" winds, from November to April; and, South West monsoon "Habagat" winds, from May to October. Tropical storms and typhoons (hurricanes / cyclones) may affect the Philippines at any time of year but are most frequent between April through November.
Because this part of the West Pacific and the South China Sea is so important to global trade, Puerto Galera and Philippine weather forecasts are available through a myriad of different weather forecasting websites, which provide hourly, six hourly and daily weather forecasts & updates, including satellite imagery and live webcam feeds.
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 Weather NOW
Get the actual weather right-now-this-minute from Muelle Pier, where the Puerto Galera webcam is located at Sharkeez Pizzeria & Internet Cafe:
QBE webcam
For other real-time Philippine weather webcams click here: MyCam-Asia.tv
Get Philippine weather picture from space - hourly infra-red satellite imagery for the West Pacific and the South China Sea:
Kochi University, Japan
WARNINGS: for the last known position, expected track and strike probabilities of current typhoons we recommend:
Joint Typhoon Warning Centre is the primary data source for typhoon strike probablity used by almost all other typhoon warning websites;
NRL Monterey Marine Meteorology Division (showing typhoon-track graphics, strike probability and the latest satellite picture);
University of Hawaii (Global view of all active typhoons, hurricanes and cyclones with strike probabilities);
and,
Typhoon 2000 (interesting additional links)
If you want to receive TYPHOON WARNINGS for storms that may directly affect Puerto Galera and other popular water sports and sailing areas in the Philippines then click here and we will add you to our Tropical Storm/Typhoon Warning email list.
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Weather FORECAST
For long range typhoon forecasts of tropical storm activity you should visit the Tropical Storm Risk website, which offers predictions primarily for the purpose of insurance risk assessment but it is a useful resource for all.
Tropical Storm Risk
For a combined, two day wave direction/height and wind direction/strength forecast for more than fifty water sports locations around the Philippines we recommend:
Buoy Weather (then click on the red dot nearest to your location of interest)
For a six day, wave direction/height forecasts and precipitation forecast/barometric pressure forecast covering the entire West Pacific we recommend the (Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center) FNMOC. The FNMOC website used to be more user-friendly, and allowed us to link to individual sections, but now you have to do-it-yourself on a daily basis . . . but it's still good info. (Note: the graphics for any one section take about 4 minutes to download completely @56Kbps):
FNMOC West Pacific
For a seven day view of the wind direction/strength, wave-height, temperature, cloud cover & rainfall forecasts, for Puerto Galera and 15 other windsurfing and water sports destinations within the Philippines, the WindGuru gives some pretty accurate weather forecasts at:
www.windguru.com
For another view of the wind direction/strength and wave-height forecasts for the West Pacific and South China Sea, the Windfinder gives wind & water sports enthusiasts a colourful seven day forecast at:
www.windfinder.com
Two weather information sites that are of particular interest to surfers and power boat owners give seven-day weather forecasts including wind, swell height & period data for Philippine waters:
www.magicseaweed.com and www.wetsand.com
For links to other weather information relating to the West Pacific and the South China Sea start at:
www.weather.org.hk
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