3.3. Requesting weather for locations away from your present location
When registering for SpotCast Extreme you were asked to enter the name on your Delorme account at explore.delorme.com. The name provided must be identical to the name on your Delorme account. The easiest way to confirm the exact name on your account is to send a text from your inReach device to your personal email address. Your Delorme name will appear in the subject line.
Go to Messages on your inReach device and select New Message
Type the latitude and longitude of the location for which you want a weatherforecast.
Switch to number mode on your inReach keyboard. Then follow these few basicrules:
North latitude and East longitude are positive. That means if you are askingfor a location in the Southern Hemisphere, you’ll need to precede the latitude with a minus sign. Likewise, if looking for a Western hemisphere location, precede that longitude with a minus sign.
Express your latitude and longitude values in degrees and fractions of a degree. For example, 46 degrees 30 minutes North would be expressed as 46.5 . 122 degrees 45 minutes West would be expressed as -122.75.
Note that you can use either a period or an apostrophe ‘ to separate your units in the latitudes or longitudes you use. If you use a period, the inReach assumes you are ending a sentence so it pushes you out of the number entry screen and into the text entry screen. Kind of a pain. If you use the apostrophe ‘ instead of the period, you stay on the number entry screen.
SpotCast Extreme will also accept whole integer latitude and/or longitude values, eg 46,-123.
Separate your latitude value from your longitude value with a comma.
After entering the lat and lon of interest to you, find the OK button on the numberentry pad and press it.
Press the Send button to request your weather. Weather will be returned within afew minutes.
