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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, urries,
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 > .
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 ag 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