| Geoff |
| (Weather Hobbyist) |
| Fri Oct 21 2005 03:37 PM |
Re: Wilma Approaching the Yucatan Peninsula
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No chicken bones, just many decades of hands on experience navagating in and around typhoons and hurricanes throughout all the oceans of the world.
Of course, that kind of experience and intuition is no longer necessary now that we have all these highly accurate computers models available to tell us where the storms are going.
Besides, you don't have worry yourself; we're all safe and no lives will be lost because I can guarantee that this octogenarian sea captain won't be taking Max Mayfield's job anytime soon.
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Does he also consult the chicken bones before making decisions that could cost people their lives?Barometer could go up from several reasons, only one of which is a system moving away from you.
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Last year as we were being told to evacuate our home here in Tampa because of Charley, my father called and said not to worry that it was going to turn. I asked him why he thought that; and he said (after reading his garage sale barometer on his porch up in north Tampa) "our pressure is rising, it nevers goes up when they're approaching. It must be turning."
A few hours later we started hearing the local mets saying that it looked like it was turning.