XM WX Satellite Weather
®
and XM
®
Satellite Radio Supplement
5
XM WX Satellite Weather and XM Satellite Radio
Weather Symbols
Symbol
Weather
Symbol
Weather
Fair (sunny, hot,
clear)
Rain (drizzle, sleet, showers)
Partly Cloudy
Cloudy
Thunderstorms
Snow (snow showers, flurries,
blizzard, blowing snow, sleet,
freezing rain, freezing drizzle)
Foggy
Smoke (dusty, hazy)
Windy
Viewing Sea Conditions
The sea conditions screen shows information about surface conditions, including winds, wave height, wave
period, and wave direction.
From the Home screen, select
Weather
>
Sea Conditions
.
Surface Winds
Surface wind vectors appear on the Sea Conditions screen using wind barbs that indicate the direction from
which the wind is blowing. A wind barb is a circle with a tail. The line or flag attached to the tail of the wind
barb indicates the wind speed. A short line represents 5 knots, a long line represents 10 knots, and triangle
represents 50 knots.
Wind Barb
Wind Speed
Wind Direction
Wind Barb
Wind Speed
Wind Direction
Calm
20 knots
5 knots
50 knots
10 knots
65 knots
15 knots
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