right, jerry, in the Chesey the REALLY strong winds in a thunderstorm are in
the NW quadrant, and the storms move in from the NE. The rest of the n.
hemisphere follows its own path.

In article ,
(JAXAshby) wrote:

jerry, what a yo-yo are.

while thunderstorms *move* from the sw to the ne, the ROUGHEST frickin'
winds
come when the darkest (ya no, as in frickin' DARK) cloud are ta da north of

ya.

jerry, you read waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too many books without actually
gittin' out out on da watah to see WTF es happin'


It's Jere, not jerry....

What I wrote was not "book reading". It was 20 years' experience on the
Chesapeake, easily 1000 days away from the dock.

Your area may have different characteristics, probably does. What you
have learned may not serve you well if you wander onto the Bay.

Related story from a friend: He befriended a UK family just starting
onto the Bay for a season's cruising before they completed their
circumnavigation. He warned them of squalls. They pooh-poohed the
warnings. After all, they had 20-30k miles under that stout boat's keel,
had been brushed (once hard) by several hurricanes or cyclones, and had
experienced lots of "weather". Simple thunderstorms didn't bother them
much.

A week or so later, they left the Potomac north bound. North of the
Solomons, they found out what the warnings were all about. They were SO
shaken that they returned to the Potomac that they knew rather than the
Solomons that seemed tight under the conditions.

Our friend didn't pay for any drinks when next they met.

--
Jere Lull
Xan-a-Deux ('73 Tanzer 28 #4 out of Tolchester, MD)
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