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JimH wrote:
.........accuweather.com for my cell phone. Live radar and satellite
weather images are now available on my cell phone. $3.99/month for the
premium service. http://wireless.accuweather.com/

Not having radar on the boat to double check on weather warnings
broadcast
on the VHS or when the sky starts to look questionable this program will
come in handy. ;-)


That might be a handy feature to have.

Do you also carry a barometer? I'd suspect that by the time a storm
severe enough to show up on radar gets close enough to be detected by
the type of radar commonly found on small pleasure craft you would want
to be headed for shelter at a pretty good clip. Will the weather radar
on your cell phone give you pretty detailed coverage so that you can
possibly detect squalls, or are the satellite images mostly regional in
nature?

How good is the cell phone coverage where you boat? It's probably OK
along the shorelines
(is most anywhere that there's much settlement) but if you're far
enough offshore that you would need radar for spotting storms will you
always have reliable cell signal?


Great cell phone coverage. I do not go far from shore with this boat. I am
pretty good at reading the skies and our VHS has a weather alert feature.
This cell phone feature just backs up those things so I can get a visual on
the location and intensity of the storm, if in fact there is one heading our
way.