On Fri, 20 May 2016 23:34:59 -0500, Califbill
wrote:

Alex wrote:

I take my 18' bass boat 6 miles offshore to the reef on good days. I can
get back in less than 15 minutes if the horizon looks dark.


Depends on the area. Here off San Francisco, the winds come up lat morning
in the summer, and goes from flat calm to swells, with 3' wind waves in 30
minutes. Small boat, makes for a large Ickes factor. Did that in a 14'
boat a lt of years ago. Not now. Run in before it gets nasty

That is why I like tropical weather. If you know what to look for, you
can see this stuff building and usually when you are watching the
trends, you know about when you need to start watching out for it.
It is really all about where the wind is going.
Right now our basic pattern is the Atlantic sea breeze crashing into
the Gulf sea breeze down the spine of Florida so the weather is pretty
much all inland. If that sea breeze falls off from the Gulf it will
come back over us at night. We are seeing the last of the northern
fronts that make it down this far this month. Later in the summer,
none of that jet stream weather will make it down here., Our weather
is local or it comes off the coast of Africa moving East to West (the
opposite of the jet stream)