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        In keeping with http://www.globalweathersolutions.com/  we bring you GLOBAL WEATHER SITES.  Click on any of the tropical cyclone centers below to see how the other half lives. The first one, http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ , is the national hurricane center which chronicles tropical weather for North America.  The graphic above is from that site.  

        The HURRICANE SURVIVAL GUIDE advertised elsewhere on these pages can be used to track a tropical cyclone's eye without the use of electronics on the HURRICANE FINDER CHART which is also used to paint a picture of the storm showing strength and direction of winds, at your front door, days before it arrives using data from any of the sites mentioned below.  

        The Guide is a tool than can be used  globally, which may save your property and the lives of your family when electronics fail.  




                          Tropical Cyclone Centers Worldwide


                                         National Hurricane Center
                                        http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/                                       

      Severe Weather Information Centre World Meteorological Organization  
                                                   http://severe.worldweather.org

                                                         Japan Meteorological Agency
                                                  www.jma.go.jp/jma/indexe.html      

                                                             Fiji Meteorological Service
                                                  http://www.metservice.co.nz/default/index.php

                                                          New Zealand Meteorological 
                                                                   http://www.metservice.co.nz/default/index.php

                                      Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology
                                                                    http://www.imd.gov.in/

                                                India Meteorological Department
                                                                                          http://www.imd.gov.in/

                                                                       Meteo France
                                                              http://www.meteo.fr/temps/domtom/La_Reunion/

                                                           Canadian Hurricane Centre
                                                                  http://www.atl.ec.gc.ca/weather/hurricane






                          OFFSHORE BAHA CALIFORNIA

        This pic was sent to me this spring from Gary and Terry who had just transited the Panama Canal on their way to San Diego, California.  They have been mentioned several times in these pages regarding their adventures in the Caribbean.  I first met them on the SSB radio as they fought their way to Isla Mujeres, Mexico after engine and sail failure.  I wrote CAFE NEWS in Isla, excerpts of which can be found elsewhere on this site. Cruisers call Isla Mujeres just Isla and the Rio Dulce in Guatemalla  the Rio.  When you hear this shorthand from someone you know they've been there. 

        They were several hundred miles offshore in winds of about 50 mph.  This is what the sea looks like in such conditions.  While a picture may be worth a thousand words nothing can protray what it's like until you've been there.  I miss it and am planning to go back south into the Caribbean in the fall.  I'll let you know what I find.



              DOLPHINS IN THE PACIFIC OFF BAHA

    Dolphins are a happy sight offshore.  I once saw several hundred of these grinning beasts in the central Gulf of Mexico as the sun was setting.  They all leaped at the same time perhaps to get a better view of the lone voyager who came  all the way out there to amuse them.  I wrote about dolphins in TILLER TALES, excerpts can be found elsewhere on this site.  Have a look.



                            That's that for this.

                           TAKE CARE,

                                  JB