On Sat, 23 Sep 2006 16:29:43 +0000 (UTC), Drew Cutter
wrote:

So a barometer is good enough ? By going to one of garmin rino gps
should save me a few dollars. Plus a vhs radio should do me find.

I think so. Really, by the time you can do anything about it a barometer
is just as good. I think you can probably do without the barometer, it's
probably just a holdover from my days on a sailboat. As far as day or
weekend trips go, I've never been able to do much better than watching the
local weather and keeping an eye out. Weather gadgets are better for
telling what happened than they are in predicting what will happen. I have
a mount for a Garmin Vista in my kayak, it has a built in barometer
(altimeter) and a compass. It was kind of neat to watch the compass swing
around, the altimeter didn't move much, but when it did, watch out. I
frequently try to out guess the weatherguessers. I can see no less than
three weather instruments from where I sit now. There are oodles more
around the house, I even have sensors and a station in my van. I've even
got one of those watches that shows you barometric pressure. The thing I
have in common with professional weatherguessers is that we are both
miserable in predicting the weather.

Galen Hekhuis NpD, JFR, GWA
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