Strong Wind Warning in Effect
We often dump on the weather prediction people for getting it wrong. In a spirit of openness, I have been tracking what the marine weather forecasters on the coast of British Columbia have been saying for the region of water that we are located in.
Here’s my experience. In most cases, when there is a fairly brisk breeze and waves of a couple of feet outside my window, there is no wind warning in effect but when there is barely a breeze and the water is rippled or completely calm, I will often see a “Strong Wind Warning in Effect.”
The following screen shot and the accompanying photo were taken within seconds of each other. One shows the Strong Wind Warning in Effect” and the other shows the actual conditions. You decide!
PS – in case you want to point out that their warning may have meant that a wind was coming, it didn’t.
Okay, got it – maybe wind is different in you neck of the woods?
OR:
Predictors and authors of “strong wind warning in effect” are just full of “hot air”?
Cheers!
Susan
If the hot air can come from your neck of the woods, please send some this way. We’re in typical June weather on the BC West Coast.
When they give the direction, is it that it’s coming in from the Northwest or heading to the northwest (i.e. in fact coming from the Southeast?) I can never remember.
Good question, Donna. The wind direction they give is always the direction the wind is coming FROM.
Where we live, there are two prevailing winds. North West and South East. If the wind is North West, it usually means clear weather. If it’s from the South East, it usually means stormy weather. This is true in all seasons.
C’mon John, you can tell them. This IS as windy as it ever gets in paradise! It’s even calmer in the winter months!
Ah, yes, Rachelle. Calm in the winter, always.