Weather Forecasting – pt 2. We Survived

What a night! We are exhausted – actually A. and I are – the boy slept through everything.

The weather forcast was correct right up to the wind speed part – that’s where they really screwed up. The winds last night were over 50 knots (58 mph, 95 km/hr) for more than 5 hours. The wind gusts went over 100 kms/hr many times. We were up every 1/2 hour or so until well after 3:00am checking the boat and the docks. This morning there is damage everywhere. Two of the docks are snapped in half, 4 boats lost either parts or all of their plastic covers and at least one BBQ is gone.

So … the snow, ice pellets, and rain – all predicted and all came to pass, all easily dealt with. However, the dangerous part – the wind – that, they missed.

And that is the source of frustration that I have with meteorology.

You can see a couple of more ‘aftermath‘ photo’s on my wife’s life aboard blog.