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Old 08-22-2016, 05:26 AM   #5
bnoft
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I agree, the wind and weather forecast on the Chesapeake can frequently appear to be the work of a legal team, not scientists. We were planning a trip up the bay 2 weeks ago and held off due to the forecast of, "winds 5-10 its with gusts to 20, small craft conditions may be necessary." Gusts to 20? from 5-10? After 3 days of reading this and checking buoy readings that agreed with the 5-10 but never saw a gust over 10 its, I came to the conclusion that the forecast for high gusts was in the event a thunderstorm developed. I don't think the chance of storms was greater than 20% and we saw none. Thanks for the Windy .com, always looking for more info. We have used predict wind.com which offers 4 different model forecasts that are usually accurate, especially when the models agree.
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