Hi. Well done on a well thought out site. The weather parameters you have selected are ideal in my view and the temporal and spatial resolutions are the best available of the 'free to access' sites. One small thing, stemming from my personal laziness, it would be nice to access a personally defined default GRIB area rather than go through the graphical selection tool each time. When at sea this would reduce data download amount (and thus cost).

Regards

Anthony Richards

Yeah, PNGs are good too though can't do animations. I tend to copy and paste the meteogram for the week ahead and print it out for quick reference. It's surprising how acurate it is even after 6 days - the timings may have changed but the predicted weather and intensities are just spot on.

An animation of the selected area would be good as a gif and probably as separate images too for printing though if I am cruising in the same area I use the meteogram.

Thank you for agreeing to export pictures.

BUT:

PNG is not better than GIF. It once was developed only because GIF was restriced by a software patent. The patent ceased in 2004. There ist NO reason for not using GIF today, it will match your palette pictures perfectly. So you will have NO problem with the lack of animations in PNG.