Find information about weather reporting ships
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In my zone ships with weather stations are not common but very useful when they are in the zone while planning a trip, so I would like to know the list of ships that are currently reporting to track their location and know in advance if they will be in the area. Googling the id displayed by Windy worked for some ships but not for the ones that are in my area. I tried to find them in the NOAA list but the IDs are different.
Thank you -
@Ponyo-Nauta
It is difficult to identify the VOS vessels reporting weather parameters. The identification number displayed in Windy for those ships is not the MMSI, IMO nor the call sign of the ship.
See some explanation:
https://community.wmo.int/en/voluntary-observing-ships-vos-scheme-ships-identification-masking-scheme
So it is not easy to identify them.
