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I’ve been watching the weather forecast, hoping for wintermild temperatures and a favorable wind prediction for an Assateague Trip. The long range forecast looks to provide a tidally favored window sometime in the next week.
The favorable part of the wind prediction has shifted a full day in the past 24 hours of weather watching. I should start packing now to be ready in case the target keeps moving.
On catch-as-can trips I am fascinated by watching conditions change, whether it is checking gauges and rain forecasts in a watershed or looking ahead for kindly tide and wind predictions.
The only time I pay that kind of detailed attention to the forecasts, especially to the subtle changes in the long range predictions as fronts gain or lose power and move in or out, is when tripping and trip planning.
No question that such tripping attention has provided the bulk of my weather understanding. It’s hard to really understand weather unless you are out in it. And harder still to appreciate it.
The favorable part of the wind prediction has shifted a full day in the past 24 hours of weather watching. I should start packing now to be ready in case the target keeps moving.
On catch-as-can trips I am fascinated by watching conditions change, whether it is checking gauges and rain forecasts in a watershed or looking ahead for kindly tide and wind predictions.
The only time I pay that kind of detailed attention to the forecasts, especially to the subtle changes in the long range predictions as fronts gain or lose power and move in or out, is when tripping and trip planning.
No question that such tripping attention has provided the bulk of my weather understanding. It’s hard to really understand weather unless you are out in it. And harder still to appreciate it.