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Welcome !!!.  Google tells me that by far this page is the most visited page on my website.  Each week about 50 people or so from around the world visit my pages dealing with weather. All things related to weather can be found in the "Weather Channel" category 

I collected all of these links to help me easily find the weather info for a specific region and help me as we plan our trip.  I am surprised, but glad to see that others find this helpful as well.

Below are links for both the Pacific and Caribbean weather, where you can get up to date satellite and surface analysis forecast.

I have also added a up to the minute graphic on wind conditions in Aruba, I would like to sail the "wrong way" and head East from Panama.  The wind and swell strength and direction are making that tough.

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Original Post

"The first stage in the development of this type of hurricane is a tropical wave. A tropical wave is a trough at low latitudes. ... 
At the same time it grows vertically, a tropical trough or wave moves westward at speeds averaging 10 to 20 knots. During peak season in the North Atlantic, tropical waves are often seen crossing the ocean in succession from east to west separated by four to eight degrees of longitude.

If you are in the Caribbean during hurricane season, pay careful attention to the wind direction. Any slow and steady change from the normal easterly direction could indicate the approach of a trough or wave.

As a tropical wave approaches, you will see the wind back from east to northeast and north. As the trough passes, the wind will continue to back slowly until it reaches a southeasterly direction. ...

The majority of hurricanes that move from the Atlantic into the Caribbean in August and September follow a west-northwesterly course in low latitudes, often reaching the U. S. East Coast before curving north and northeast. In late September and in October and November, hurricanes are likely to move to the north and east, passing through the Yucatan Channel or over Cuba, Florida, or the Bahamas.

In October and November, movement of hurricanes is often toward the north into the open Atlantic. ...As the hurricane's center recedes from you, barometric pressure rises and winds begin to subside. Seas also subside, but the wind decreases sooner. A fully risen sea can often take days to subside.

Pacific Seafarer's Net  14.300MHz daily at 0300UTC

Where to get weather in the Bahamas and Caribbean:

• The Bahamas
• The Eastern Caribbean
• The Northwestern Caribbean

DON ANDERSON'S RADIO SCHEDULE

Beginning June 20, 2006
My ham call N6HG
My private coast station, SUMMER PASSAGE RADIO WPXU557
My Valiant 47 “SUMMER PASSAGE” WBX8756
Oxnard CA

Selected Caribbean Shortwave Weather Reports

Historical tracking charts for all hurricanes during 2005 in both the Eastern Pacific and Atlantic

Historical tracking charts for all hurricanes during 2006 in both the Eastern Pacific and Atlantic

These Eastern Pacific and Atlantic - Caribbean storm feeds will be activated by NOAA on June 1st, 2007