Chapter 5: Weather (US only)
Running the animation
Once you have set the animation type (see previous section) you can run the animation
feature:
The status bar indicates the time-frame displayed. The weather radar history provides
up to eight images of data covering the last two hours, at 15-minute intervals.
If at any time you need to pause the animation, for instance to examine the displayed
weather for a particular time frame, press PAUSE.
Notes: (1)
5.9 Viewing weather reports
Your system will display reports for:
• Tropical statements.
• Marine warnings.
• Marine zone forecasts.
• Marine watchbox reports.
These weather reports are accessed via the WEATHER REPORTS soft key. Each report
type may contain several bulletins; the window can be scrolled to view all the data.
Tropical statements
To display the reports for the latest tropical weather statements:
ANIMATE
WEATHER...
You cannot display information (by moving the cursor over a symbol) when ani-
mation is running. The range and trackpad controls do however remain operable
provided the PAUSE option has not been selected. Ranging /panning will cause
the animation to restart.
(2)
The animation will be switched to OFF, whenever the ACTIVE, PAGE, DATA, WPS/
MOB, MENU are pressed or when the animation screen is closed and you return
to the default weather screen.
WEATHER
REPORTS...
ON
e.g
TROPICAL
STATEMENT
ANIMATE
Tropical Statements
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