Dave Kruger wrote: > Could it be the forecasts are for open water, where conditions would be more > severe? Well, this summer when I was up on the BC coast I too had the impression that the wind I experienced was often less than forecast. And sometimes in a completely different direction. I assumed this was due to land effects and that off shore conditions would be more in line with what was forecast. I use the Suunto Vector altimeter watch as my barometer. It keeps the history of the pressure every hour for the past 6 hours, then every 6 hours before. I don't have to keep my eye on it, I can always go back and check the history. In addition, the watch has a small graph to show the significant trend in the past three hours then the three hours before that: up, steady, or down. So if there has been some significant movement the graph will alert me. However, as John suggested, I've also noted that in the north west we can have significant changes in the weather with only small barometric changes. Most of the time the watch graph shows steady - steady while mild storms blow through. But when I do see a significant change there usually is significant weather moving through. Tom Unger Seattle. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sun Aug 29 1999 - 11:24:47 PDT
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