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OK, now I know why the Isabel one drives me crazy! 20% WSW, 10% W and 10%
SSW! (I thought it was fine before he "fixed" it.) I'm going to have to
have even more variables in my mind now.
I thought the Sacramento River also was way better before he changed it a
couple of years ago. It lost its sensitivity.
I very strongly wish he would leave the readings alone. I think my brain is
much better able to compensate for direction, min/max and temperature than
is the computer. Plus I input (into my brain) what it's going on at other
sites to guess what I'm going to get at the site I'm at, e.g., if it's
howling Southish at Larkspur, I'm going to get blasted at Isabel--way over
what the pager reads--when I get up to Brooks Island.
The temperature a Berkeley is very important because it gives you a clue as
to how well the wind is connecting at water level. When the temperature is
over 62 degrees it starts to get iffy, with more and more of a vertical
gradient as the temperature rises. I'm sure the machine, at about 40 feet
in the air, is accurate for what's happening up there. I've paid a lot of
attention to the temperature over the years because I work on the other side
of the hills and I can't tell how warm it is bay-side or if the fog is in or
coming . . . the temperature is my proxy.
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