New to this group - can anyone tell me what has happened to the FNMOC
(letters in the right order I hope) site that used to give me the
chance to view a series of charts up to 144hrs ahead.. a variety of
locations around the world but obviously the Atlantic was the most
useful.
After about two years of using these almost on a day by day basis, my
shortcut suddenly would not load.
I rarely looked at anything on the BBC site for, by comparison, what
the latter offer (for me) is positively basic.
Any thoughts or,indeed, alternatives are eagerly awaited!

In message , Robin Nicholson
writes
New to this group - can anyone tell me what has happened to the FNMOC
(letters in the right order I hope) site that used to give me the
chance to view a series of charts up to 144hrs ahead.. a variety of
locations around the world but obviously the Atlantic was the most
useful.
After about two years of using these almost on a day by day basis, my
shortcut suddenly would not load.
I rarely looked at anything on the BBC site for, by comparison, what
the latter offer (for me) is positively basic.
Any thoughts or,indeed, alternatives are eagerly awaited!

It's working OK for me.

Norman.
(delete "thisbit" twice to e-mail)
--
Norman Lynagh Weather Consultancy
Chalfont St Giles
England

In message , Robin
Nicholson writes
New to this group - can anyone tell me what has happened to the FNMOC
(letters in the right order I hope) site that used to give me the
chance to view a series of charts up to 144hrs ahead.. a variety of
locations around the world but obviously the Atlantic was the most
useful.
After about two years of using these almost on a day by day basis, my
shortcut suddenly would not load.
I rarely looked at anything on the BBC site for, by comparison, what
the latter offer (for me) is positively basic.
Any thoughts or,indeed, alternatives are eagerly awaited!


You haven't said which link you are using ... I assume from the
description, it is this?

https://www.fnmoc.navy.mil/PUBLIC/WXMAP/index.html

This question comes up from time to time, and I *think* its something to
do with the fact that it is a secure site, which you need to tell your
browser you are happy with.

I use Netscape for my Met work, and unless I check certain settings, I
get :-
" Unable to verify the identity of www.fnmoc.navy.mil as a trusted site
"

" Your browser does not recognize the Certificate Authority " (etc. ...
a lot more after that)

What I have done is to use "Accept this certificate permanently", and
although I sometimes have to still 'accept' the site certificate, it
works ok. On IE, the procedure is different, but essentially you go
through the same hoops.

On some occasions, the site will not load at all: however, this has
always seemed to be a 'high-use' problem, as that site is much used
during the Hurricane season in NAM and particularly at the moment, with
some much activity in the region, it will sometimes fail (as will be TPC
site ... though they seem to have wound that one up this year and it
happens rarely). Leaving it for a 10-20 minute gap will usually allow
access.



Hope that helps,



Martin.

New to this group - can anyone tell me what has happened to the FNMOC
(letters in the right order I hope) site that used to give me the
chance to view a series of charts up to 144hrs ahead.. a variety of
locations around the world but obviously the Atlantic was the most
useful.
After about two years of using these almost on a day by day basis, my
shortcut suddenly would not load.
I rarely looked at anything on the BBC site for, by comparison, what
the latter offer (for me) is positively basic.
Any thoughts or,indeed, alternatives are eagerly awaited!


Hi Robin,
for your information Weatheronline provides most of the model forecast
charts for Europe on
http://expert.weatheronline.co.uk/

best regards,
Alan


--
Wirral,Merseyside. 53.1 N 3.0 W 40m amsl
http://www.wirralcam.com/frame.htm

Martin Rowley wrote:
In message , Robin
Nicholson writes

New to this group - can anyone tell me what has happened to the FNMOC
(letters in the right order I hope) site that used to give me the




If you are using Firefox or Mozilla / Netscape accept the certificate
permananetly as the issued one is out of date according to FF.

Les

--
Les Crossan,
Wallsend, Tyne & Wear 54:59N 01:32W,
Home of the Wallsend Stormcam - http://www.uksevereweather.org.uk

On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 09:35:46 +0100, "Alan Duckers"
wrote:


Hi Robin,
for your information Weatheronline provides most of the model forecast
charts for Europe on

Thanks Alan and others - seem to have got back to the right link and
the Shortcuts seem to be working OK now. I should have stuck at it and
investigated but as usual time is short for me!