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Re: Weather
[Re: kish]
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11/04/2015 01:57 PM
11/04/2015 01:57 PM
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Carol_Hill
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Today looks pretty windy, on the port cam, and especially on the Club O cam, since the umbrellas are down at the moment. There actually has been more rain in SXM recently than there had been, as the island was suffering from a drought. However, it's not something to worry about ahead of time. Worrying about the weather is not going to change whatever it will be. Go with a good attitude and you will enjoy yourself, regardless of the weather. Check out the 'rain' thread here also.
Carol Hill
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Re: Weather
[Re: bspicer]
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11/04/2015 05:07 PM
11/04/2015 05:07 PM
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Posts: 13,143 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
islandgem
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We arrived on Sunday and the weather has been great! We only had one shower on Monday evening where we are staying. It often rains in one area and not another. People in Beacon Hill have mentioned showers each day, but we have not experienced that. The weather reports regarding rain are definitely not accurate every day so don't worry about the weather; just come and have fun!
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Re: Weather
[Re: bspicer]
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11/04/2015 07:49 PM
11/04/2015 07:49 PM
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Bill_S
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bspicer said: Forecast looks horrible for the next week. 60 to 70 percent chance of rain. I know its hit or miss sometimes but these percentages look high. How has it been down there today? Hoping we get some sun next week. SXM is a tropical island, mountainous, in the Trade Winds, with nothing but a couple thousand miles of open Atlantic Ocean to the Northeast. The end result is that the Trade Winds blowing out of the Northeast across all that open ocean pick up a lot of moisture. When they get to St. Martin they hit the mountains like Pic Paradise and climb up the slope into cooler air and lose their moisture as rain. That's a long-winded way of saying that it probably will rain somewhere on the island, at sometime during each day, for at least a few minutes. That is why the long range weather forecasts call for a medium probability of rain every day. The only days with no rain forecast are during unusual conditions with a high pressure area sitting overhead. Unless there is a tropical depression passing by the island there are very few washout days like we in the eastern US get when a warm front creeps northward along the coast. So don't overthink weather forecasts... The norm is a few small showers scattered around the island in different locations at different times for a short duration each. No big deal...
Bill
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