> rick wrote:

>> On Mar 28, 5:11 pm, cloud dreamer Invalld.com> wrote:

>>> Do you have a link to those stations? I can't find any listings for
>>> Zanzibar.

>

>> I'd rather not duplicate it, if you don't mind, but I just went to
>> weather underground and typed in "Zanzibar." What always takes me a
>> bit of time to figure out is how to get to the historical (archived)
>> weather info for specific days past, which is why I hate to duplicate
>> it. There really wasn't any big difference between the two days--just
>> the small ones noted. It doesn't prove anything one way or the other,
>> but a real storm at Zanzibar on Dec. 3 would have. That was what I
>> was looking for.

>
> The only listing I got for Zanzibar was from a personal weather station
> and that is hardly something to base the weather in an area outside the
> immediate location of the station on. I should know. I have two weather
> stations listed on the site. They do fine telling me what the weather is
> overhead, but if there's a storm a hundred miles out to sea causing
> swells big enough to cause a small craft advisory, I won't always see
> the results on my weather stations. Some weather systems will never move
> over land. We can be under the influence of a huge high pressure system
> that is pushing a low along the seaboard but the stations won't pick up
> the lower barometric readings or winds from that system...but if I go
> down to the ocean a couple km away, I can quite often see the swells
> associated with the low.
>
> But the whole argument about the departure time is moot anyway. As we
> saw from the last episode, the producers can pick and choose when they
> want the teams to bunch...when they had the buses leave the next day 4
> hours apart. The Barbie's lost a huge time lead because of that.