What you’re looking at: You’re looking at a map of where we are with a wind overlay showing the current windspeed. We use a program called PredictWind to download wind, weather, and wave data via satellite phone.
How to read the map The arrows show the direction that the wind is coming from. The color shows the windspeed. The warmer the color, the stronger the wind.
What is a knot (Kts)? A knot is nautical miles per hour.
Purple ~ 0 Kts Blue ~ 5Kts (5.5 mph) Green ~10Kts (11.5 mph) Yellow ~ 15Kts (17.25 mph) Orange ~ 20Kts (23 mph)
Red ~25Kts (29 mph) Dark red-Black 25-50Kts (fast)