Re: Are you addicted to NOAA Weather Radio?

To me the biggest thing is that those forecasts don't show probability.
I guess 25mph is more probable of being windy than a 20mph forecast,
but there still is something missing if your not looking at models. The
biggest thing I see often is, What happens if the front goes a tiny bit
north or south of you? This you usually can't see in numerical
forecfasts.

But these large models also miss the very local winds that iwindsurf
may be better at. In my experience these are more finicky winds
anyways.

Glenn Woodell wrote:
How do you all rate iWindsurf? Sounds like many of you enjoy the
self-forecasting, something I don't particularly care to do. All the
pressure gradients and isobars confuse me. I don't put much faith
into translating them into sail sizes, especially when there is not
much variability over large regions. And they are not much for
predicting seabreezes. I guess I just prefer to let the professionals
do it. We have a lot of iWindsurf sensors where I am so maybe that
makes a big difference too.

Glenn

On 31 May 2006 09:50:06 -0700, "LeeD" <domsports@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Speaking of the SF Bay Area......
We DO need to keep track of the coming weather. Whether a radio, TV,
newspaper, or whatever, anything is better than nothing.
However, I see more people with pagers and weather radios MISSING the
wind than the guys who ask them, then decide to windsurf or not.
All reporting sites show wind at least 15 minutes ago.
Most cannot predict accurately what it will be by the time you rig
and suit up.
If you think it's windy enough, rig.
If it's still windy, suit up.
If it's still windy, go out.

.

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