Your COMANDequipment
These operatin ginstruction sdescribe all th e
standar dan doptional equipmen tfo ryour
COMAN Dsystem, as available at th etime of
going to print .Country-specifi cdifference s
are possible. Please note that your COMAN D
syste mmay no tbe equipped wit hall th efea-
tures described .
Weather forecasts
Introduction
Thisfunction is currentl yno tavailable fo r
Canada.
Fo rth ereception of weather forecast svia
satellite radio, you will need aSIRIU SXM Sat -
ellite Weather subscription .
If th emessage: Call
SIRIUStoactivate
system at: 888-539-747 4ESN:
SIRIUSIDappears alon gwit hth eID number
of th eSIRIU Sdevice, you will need to hav eth e
weather servic eactivated first .
XTo selectCal lorCancel:turn an dpress
th econtroller .
If amobile phone is connecte dto COMAN D
(
Ypage 112), th ecal lwill connec tto aSIR-
IU Sservic eemploye eafter selecting Call
.
The ID number of th eSIRIU Sdevic ewill be
transferred to th etelephon edisplay.
XThi swill be followed by instruction sfrom
th eservic eemployee.
COMAN Dcan receiv eweather forecast svia
satellite radio fo rth eentire US A(includin g
Alask aan dHawaii).
The received weather dat acan be displaye d
as an information chart (dail yforecast ,five-
day forecast ,detailed information )or on th e
weather map .
The weather dat areceived from aweather
station is stored in COMAN Dforon ehour .It
can therefore be displaye dagain immediately
after restartin gth eengin e(fo rexample after
refueling). Dependin
gon whic hscale has bee nselected,
th eweather map can display th efollowin g
weather dat awit hsymbols :
Rrain radar
Rstormcharacteristics
Rhig han dlow-pressure areas, weather
fronts
Rcours eof tropical cyclones (hurricanes,
typhoons )
Rstormwarnings
Rwin ddirection an dspeeds
iThe rain radar canno tbe displaye dfo r
Alaska, Hawaii an dPuerto Rico.
iHurricane: term used to describe th etrop-
ical cyclones that primarily develop in th e
Atlantic, North Pacifi can dSout hPacifi c
oceans. The win dspeeds are abov e74 mp
h
(11 8km/h). Five categorie sare used to
classify th estrengt hof ahurricane.
Typhoon :term used to describe atropical
cyclon ethat develop sin th enorthwestern
Pacific. The win dspeeds are in th ecategory
of ahurricane.
Switching th eSIRIUS Weather display
on/of f
Activating
XPress th e% button.
XTo display th emain function bar: slide
5 thecontroller .
XTo select®: turn an dpress th econtroller .
The onlin eapplication smen uappears .
212Weather forecasts
SIRIUS Weather
