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Mr. Luddite

On 1/13/2014 12:37 AM, wrote:
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.

The local NBC station has a great interactive radar on their web site
that is going to be better than anything you are likely to see on a
boat.
My wife can link directly to that radar on her phone and the Note II
has a big enough screen to make it useful.
That is our boat radar but she also uses it at work.

I remember during the last leg of our trip to Jupiter, FL the VHF
weather channel had thunderstorm warnings near the inlet. I set the
radar out to max range (I think it was 60 miles on a Raytheon radar
system) and could clearly see two, serious looking thunderstorm cells
in our path.