The weather during the holiday season

The image of our country's sky as Santa Claus will see it at Christmas...

The weather during the holiday season

by meteorologist Nikos Mazarakis and MeteoMarine


Like every year, this year too, instead of just wishes, we are also giving you the weather forecast for the holiday season. According to the forecast, the weather will have two faces during the holiday season, since unlike Christmas, which will generally be with high temperatures and plenty of sunshine, New Year's will move in a more wintery pattern.

We wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a happy and healthy New Year!

Here is the weather forecast: (more…)

Modern Marine Meteorology Seminar – Saturday 20/12

New Methods of Getting Weather Information on Board

20 December 2014 – Piraeus

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Seminar Description

Take your laptop, your tablet and your mobile phone and come learn the ways in which you will always have official meteorological information on board, wherever you are in the world, regardless of whether the facsimile works or not, regardless of whether there are official or unofficial forecasts and regardless of whether you have broadband or not.

Through a multitude of real examples and practical applications, this seminar will open new horizons for you in receiving meteorological information, training you in all the modern methods of receiving meteorological information that have been developed for sailors.

Learn how you can using e-mail of the ship, receive official charts from the world's largest meteorological services, warnings, advisories for tropical cyclones, metaarea forecasts, observations from passing ships, satellite wind measurements from the A-SCAT satellite, Grib Files (Digital weather maps). Learn how to use the most popular Grib Viewers and how to ALWAYS have weather on board. There will also be a special mention of the popular program SPOS and in OPENCPN.

Target Audience

The seminar is aimed at bridge officers of ocean-going ships, of any rank, as well as office executives of shipping companies. (more…)

Tropical Cyclones Seminar – 13 December 2014

Tropical Cyclones Seminar

Analysis- Prognosis and Avoidance

13 December 2014 – Piraeus

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Seminar Description

The tropical cyclone seminar is a modern and comprehensive approach to the most dangerous meteorological phenomenon that a sailor can encounter. This seminar provides all the basic knowledge that the bridge officer must know, such as the structure of tropical cyclones, the name, the dangerous and navigable semicircle, the Rule 1-2-3. Special reference is also made to the way tropical cyclones are symbolized on surface maps, issued by the world's largest meteorological services (NOAA, JMA) and the way meteorological messages (advisories) are read is explained. At the same time, the method of Ma-Li Chen and Lee Chesneau for predicting the trajectory of tropical cyclones using the 500 mb map is taught for the first time in Greece. And all this through practical applications, exercises and numerous examples. (more…)

MeteoMarine in Thessaloniki

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The 2-day seminar on Modern Marine Meteorology was held with complete success on November 29 & 30, 2014, at the hotel Golden Star City Resort in Perea, Thessaloniki. The seminar on the 1st day had as its objective learning how to read and understand nautical surface and wave charts, which are published by the largest meteorological services in the world, while at the same time, through practical applications, the participants were given the opportunity to make their own forecast, utilizing all the (more…)

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