WHO DO YOU BELIEVE!?!?

[sportfishingusa]

I KNOW I KNOW.. YOU ARE GOING TO SAY NEITHER ONE...


but why the heck does noaa say 10-15 sse with gusts to 20 tomorrow yet the weather channel.com says that it will be s/se 8mph all day!?!?!?

please explain please!!!

[knot for shore]

same area mass? maybe one is forcasting farther out than the other.....

[sportfishingusa]

same area mass? maybe one is forcasting farther out than the other.....

well one is just the local shore weather.. and one is the out 20nm weather..

[Capt. Lyndon]

One is the on-water forecast, where you usually have more wind due to air speed picking up over the water, due to the difference in air and water temps. The other is the on-land forecast.

[Capt Lindsay]

I had a NOAA marine forecaster laughingly tell me once that their forecasts are made by low paid goverment employees when questioned about the "inaccuracy" of a particular day's forecast.

In truth, forecasting is still something of an art even with all of the computer power at their disposal. The senior NOAA forecasters are some of the highest paid people in the federal government.

[gradyfish265]

From my experience the NOAA report is ususally a bit overkill inshore and weather.com well stinks...they are never right and are usuaully below what it really is at the shore. I'd follow NOAA before weather.com any day of the week, but use your own judgement and if you see varying reports like that, both are probably wrong and it is somewhere in the middle. I don't know how many times I've watched weather.com and they said 5-10mph and I got to the boat and it was blowing 15-20, turned on NOAA on the vhf and heard 10-15kts w/ gusts to 20 those days. I don't make that mistake anymore.

[cblddt]

There's an article in the new issue of fl sport fishing mag about how NOAA comes up with the wave forecast

[Jaydog]

listen to NOAA and you'll never GOAA...But it is best to play it safe.