Hi Mark,   
      
   On Wed 2011-Aug-17 13:56, Mark Hofmann (1:261/1304) wrote to Richard Webb:   
      
      
   RW> be consistently doing that this year.  I note a lot of the   
   RW> cruisers I work with are keeping the boat tied up at the   
   RW> dock wherever they've landed most recently.  I don't think   
   RW> I've seen one of them file a shiptrak report since last   
   RW> Friday.   
      
   MH> I'm starting to get excited about my theory, but don't want to run   
   MH> out and get a snowblower just yet.  Not to mention that would jinx   
   MH> my theory..  :)    
      
   IT's interesting, was looking like there for awhile we might get some big   
   ones, but so far they're heading for open water then sort of blowing   
   themselves out in subtropical fashion,   
   at least in the Atlantic/Caribbean basin.  NOte we've got   
   two off the pacific coast right now, one about 1k miles   
   south of Hawaii last i saw, and another not too far from   
   Manzanillo MExico.  But both of those were just making   
   tropical storm category when I last looked, and for some   
   reason that part of the pacific gets a lot of those guys   
   that whip up a closed circulation for a day or two then blow themselves out.    
   I'll have to listen in on the late net of   
   all the cruisers doing the pacific tonight and see what   
   they're saying when they give local wx conditions.   
      
      
   Also noting the folks seem to think we could get another   
   spell in the jet steamer here next week.  HOt again with the occasional t   
   storm.  At least that's what local wx radio and the paper were saying this   
   morning, and I don't recall   
   whether I saw a 10 day outlook in the weather echo this   
   morning, but sure there will be one by tomorrow sometime.   
      
   I've still got to run your idea by a local meteo guy who's a ham.  MEt to   
   catch him a week ago last night at the club   
   meeting but he didn't make it, and unless there's something   
   shaking weather wise he thinks the sky warn folks might want to be aware of   
   he's not that active on the air.   
      
   Regards,   
              Richard   
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