MetService Marine User Reviews

MetService Marine
MetService Marine
Meteorological Service of New Zealand Limited

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  • Good for general overview

    Use this website every time I want to check the forecast - more useful than “land based” sites. But needs to cover the far north - sea based activity doesn’t stop at the Bay of Islands!
  • Advertising

    Shame that Metservice as an SOE allows Google to distribute advertising to consumers on its platform. I have noticed that a larger number of ads are phishing from overseas marketing companies and in fact are click bait ads. Reliability and accuracy of weather information is somewhat lacking.
  • Light on content, design could be better, gets some of the job done

    As per title. Gets some of the job done but I wish it had a lot more content to it. Could have map view, ratings out of ten, live cam links, live reports, more localised content, details to when updates will be made to forecasts. Etc.
  • Super. Accurate

    This app is super accurate it is great if you’re wanting to know how the weather is gonna be like can you want to go out!
  • The ads are a safety issue

    Ashore, it’s a great app and contributes considerably, along with other sources of information, to mariners ability to factor in the weather to passage plans. However, like most other internet dependant sources, it fairly useless 10 miles offshore unless you have an expensive satellite communication facility.

    At the extremes of cellular service coverage, the ads spend forever downloading first, such that the forecast is often lost due to time-outs, intermittent coverage and all the other issues inherent in trying to get a signal at the extremes of cellular coverage. It’d be much better if the forecast downloaded first and the ads played second fiddle to the important safety information that is the weather forecast.
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  • Good broad overview

    Doesn’t have the hourly detail of my other cellphone apps, but consistently good daily overview. Seldom off the mark.
  • Sheberight

    Pretty handy app once you get your head around how it works. Ads are very in your face but would still recommend to any boater
  • Not bad

    Easy to use when you know how and the adverts up front are a bit annoying
  • Wildly inconsistent and inaccurate!

    Forecasting done by kids with absolutely NO local knowledge of local conditions!! Especially true in Wellington... that’s after you are forced to wait for an advert for a department store to load?!!... pathetic... for a SOE you’d kind think that forecasts that are critical to so many at sea have to wait out pointless advertising!!! May as well run an episode of the Kardashians to generate more money?...
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  • Great app

    This app is fantastic gives up to date information and is very helpful on making decisions whether to paddle or not

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