On Sun, 12 Jan 2014 13:40:16 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

For boating purposes, I can understand the advantage of instant weather
updates from whatever the source. For those equipped with radar,
setting it to it's longest range is helpful also. You can often "see"
thunderstorm cells.

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We see them on the boat's radar all the time, and you can see the
motion of the storm system also. We try to miss them if we can do so
by nudging our course a little one way or another. It frequently
works, surprisingly enough.