WEATHER ON A BOAT

WEATHER ON A BOAT
The average “urbanite” who lives in a big city, moves from an environment
air-conditioned to another, equally air-conditioned, in an air-conditioned car, he doesn’t give a damn about
weather. He never looks at the sky, why? She doesn’t notice the clouds or the changes in the wind. No
feel the storms. She thinks that an “isobar” is a standard stick according to the
ISO standards. How often do you watch the weather on television, distinguishing between suns and little clouds,
to find out if the next day, on your vacation, you can roast in the sun.
Nautical activities are carried out in the open air and therefore we are subject to the
meteorological changes, which because we do not know them, seem to us to be capricious and unpredictable. the have
a certain degree of anticipation in relation to the weather that is going to make us is more than
important when it comes to enjoying a cruise and saving yourself from bad, distressing I would say,
moments. Even if we get caught in bad weather, the situation is tremendously more
manageable if we are prepared.
Formerly the people who depended on the weather and its evolution looked at the
sky, sea and land, trying to see signs that would allow him to guess if it was going to rain or not,
if a storm would enter or instead there would be a day of sun and flies. Like this from the maps of the
television, numerical models, satellites, internet and other ultra-sophisticated media are at the
of the very, very recent history of humanity, the method of observing signs
it is very developed, (even down to verse!). Still in these times of globalization
and technology is usually decisive at the local level, where numerical models do not reach.
Today, in addition to observation, we have such an arsenal of forecasting systems
and warnings, that whoever catches us off guard by bad weather can be perfectly described as
solemn stupidity, although it should be remembered that for Einstein the two things that
he considered infinite were the universe and human stupidity and he was not sure of the
First… It is convenient to enumerate these means:
THE TIME ON TELE. At a nautical level it is not usually the most precise and detailed system,
but obviously it will warn us if a storm attacks us, where in addition to rain they are foreseeable
winds stronger than we would like. It also warns of the possible formation of
storms. The problem is that it is not always possible to have good signal coverage.
television. AM or FM radio stations can then give us certain information, about
all after the hourly news.
INFORMATION “METEO” AT THE PORT OFFICE. If we are in port, it will not be
bad idea that before leaving we take a look at the bulletin board in the office that usually
always have a weather forecast punctured. The opinion of the locals is always
enriching