Weather, The Importance Of The Big Picture

[Written Saturday, 27 August] The image above is a screen shot from Jim Corenman’s excellent View Fax application (available for free from Sailmail) showing a GRIB for the winds for the Labrador Coast for Tuesday, three days hence.

As you can see the model is forecasting strong to gale force northeasterly winds, but no big deal, particularly further north where we plan to be. By just looking at the information above we could reasonably conclude that we don’t have much to worry about even though the part of the coast we are on does not have any really good sheltered anchorages.