Originally Posted by
diginagain
Have a chat with your Radio Op - if you've got one - they should have access to the same data that the Operator sees, and probably more. Your installation may have an automated weather station or could be submitting obs manually.
^^^This^^^
Commercially available weather apps won’t give the offshore forecast and there is little point trying to learn how to decode TAFs & METARs. As we have seen on here in the past, a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing.