What makes it so difficult to get really accurate marine weather forecasts?
Everything is very, very localized. You really have to think about each area independently. The weather service tries to do that, but sometimes they don’t have enough time to give these details. Why do we get such localized weather phenomena here? It’s because we have mountains and water. We have all these mountain ranges and features, and that produces these very localized weather effects. And also, the land/water contrast. So we have these two things that are forcing local weather features. If you were to compare the maritime area here with other parts of the country, like Florida and Los Angeles or Long Island, is it more difficult to forecast here than in other places? We have much more active weather, which makes it more difficult. In Florida they worry about sea breezes, maybe, or thunderstorms. But they have no mountains there, and the mountains produce all these very substantial changes and these extreme conditions, so that makes it more difficult here. So we can take pride as
