Squid-Mobile

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Squid Mobile  (iOS and Android) is a free, powerful and yet the easiest and most comprehensive requester and viewer of Grib Files (weather files

Now available for a large audience of sailors. Doesn’t matter if you are an occasional cruiser or a keen racer, if you are an off-shore solo navigator or coastal dinghy sailor. Squid has all the forecasts data you need, selected for their best possible accuracy, covering any region, any playground around the globe.

Squid Mobile App has been developed by GreatCircle. Chosen by the most demanding navigators since 2010, on board almost every sailing boat, while tempting and often succeeding, a world speed sailing record formalized by the WSSRC.  

In 2015 Squid was the exclusive supplier of weather data for the Volvo Ocean Race, as Official Partner provided weather data for 300 boats during the Rolex Fastnet Race, participated in the Transpac and Atlantic records… and still delivered daily thousands passionate sailors with high resolution forecasts and observations.

 


Main features:

    • Models
      • GFS, CEP, HIRLAM, Arome, ARPEGE, GEM, GCWF, NAM, Mercator, IBI, OFS, WW3, …
      • Depending on your subscription
    • Multi model viewer to compare and analyze con/divergencies 

    • Up to 10 days forecasts by steps of 1 or 3 hours

    • Direct grib download or as mail attachment for easy sharing and opening in other applications (INAVx, Adrena, Expedition, …)

    • Multi-model meteograms for easy comparisons (MSLP and wind in V1)

    • Customized views by color gradients, isolines, barbs and arrowss

    • Compatible iOS 9 (multi-tasking) and Android

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Available variables:

    • Wind
    • Gust
    • Pressure
    • Preceipitation
    • CAPE
    • Relative Humidity
    • Total Cloud Cover
    • Air Temperature
    • Current: direction and speed
    • Wave
    • Sea Surface Temperature

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