> On Apr 3, 9:59 am, cloud dreamer lnvolid.com> wrote:

>> 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.

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> Okay, does the length of the trip make any difference in this
> discussion? On the Early Show, the Guidos said that boat trip took
> eight hours. Would you atart an eight hour boat trip with even the
> slightest hint of bad weather ahead?
>
> Maybe...just wondering
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