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• Wind, waves or surface pressure.
• NOWRad (Weather radar history loop).
To set up a weather animation:
1. Press Animate Weather. The animate weather softkeys appear.
2. Toggle the Animate Type soft key to the required option. This can be
F’CAST or N’RAD.
3. Toggle the Forecast soft key to the required forecast option. This can
be WIN, WAVE or PRES.
4. Toggle Animate to ON.
The time frame shown is detailed in the status bar. The weather radar
history provides up to 8 images of data covering the previous 2 hours at 15
minute intervals.
If at anytime you want to stop the animation, press PAUSE.
When an animation is running the following points should be noted:
• Information cannot be displayed by moving the cursor over a symbol.
• Range and trackpad functions remain operable provided PAUSE has
not been selected. However, using either of these controls will restart
the animation.
• The animation will stop if any of the function buttons is pressed, e.g.
ACTIVE
.
Viewing weather reports
The weather application can display the following reports for:
• Tropical statements
• Marine warnings.
• Marine zone forecasts.
• Marine watchbox reports.
Marine Warnings & Marine Zone Forecast can be specified at ships position
or at cursor.
These reports are accessed using the Weather reports soft key. Each report
type may contain several bulletins. You can scroll the window to view all of
the data.
Tropical statements
To display tropical statements:
1. Press Weather Reports. The weather application softkeys appear.
2. Press Tropical Statement. The Tropical Statement dialog box appears.
Marine warnings
You can display a report detailing current marine warnings for US coastal
or near shore areas.
To display marine warnings:
1. Press Weather Reports. The weather application softkeys appear.
2. Press Marine Warnings.
3. Toggle Forecast at to required position CURSOR or SHIP. The Marine
Warnings dialog box appears.
Tropical Statements
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