NCEP Newsletter

Products listed on this page are provided by the Ocean Prediction Center in Camp Springs, Maryland and the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Florida. The forecast area  includes the North Pacific offshore and high seas waters. The products listed on this page are transmitted via high frequency (HF) through transmitters of the United States Coast Guard from Point Reyes, California. The shortwave HF signal is decoded by Weather FAX receivers onboard ships in the forecast area. The broadcast frequencies are listed below.

NOTE: If you are interested in printing the marine weather charts listed on this page a TIFF viewer is required to have a white background.   Also, the black & white GIF images are available for printing, but they are not ideally sized for printing the complete chart. The GIF marine weather charts are color enhanced and includes the actual color coded weather symbols.

Time delay of analysis products:  Graphic analysis/forecast charts  broadcast by radiofacsimile are available by broadcast time and are usually available 30 minutes prior to broadcast.   

Click for information on key terms & symbols used on charts.

NOAA National Weather Service Washington, D.C.
Radiofacsimile Schedule Transmitted Via
U.S.C.G. Pt. Reyes, California (NMC) 15 June 2005

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NOTE: The terms Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) and Zulu (Z) are equivalent.

Print Latest Schedule  valid as of June 15, 2005
Latest Radiofacsimile Schedule Change effective May 16, 2006.
Worldwide Radiofacsimile Broadcast Schedule PDF

**Note: Tropical Products listed are issued by the National Hurricane Center. Refer to the schedule from TPC for further information.

Note: There is a program called  FTPmail which can be used to retrieve to  text messages/charts from the Ocean Prediction Center. The ftp server  is maintained by the National Weather service and will retrieve any marine products available from any office of the National Weather Service.

Contractions: VT=VALID TIME, WV=Wave, Bul=Bulletin, Hr=Hour, Prelim=Preliminary

Assigned Frequencies(KHZ): Day = 8682, 12786, 17151.2, 22527 kHz
Night = 4346, 8682, 12786, 17151.2 kHz
For Carrier Frequency Subtract 1.9 kHz

Comments On this Schedule Or Quality Of Charts Are Invited.

National Weather Service
National Centers for Environmental Prediction
Ocean Prediction Center
Attn: Tony Siebers, W/NP41
5200 Auth Rd
Camp Springs, Maryland 20746

Phone: 301-763-8441
Fax: 301-763-8592, 301-763-8085
Email: Anthony.Siebers@noaa.gov

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Last modified on Friday, January 14, 2011