Winnipesaukee weather
Last summer I attended a presentation at the Libby Museum (Wolfeboro) put on by a channel 9 weatherman, actually, to be fair to him, a meteorologist, and he told the group (mostly adults) that predicting weather in the Lakes Region is particularly difficult. Now, let me off the hook here, but he mentioned air masses cooled by the mountains, air masses gathering moisture from the sea, and air masses gaining heat from the south all, essentially, converging in the relative area of the Lake, and then the effect of the Lake on this mass of air, and all these factors produce a situation in which predicting weather for Lakes Region is very difficult. He had worked in other areas of the USA, and he said, by far, this is the most difficult area.
I have friends who life very close to the Pine Cone restaurant, and I live 9 miles south, and they will have violent rain and I will have virtually nothing. I know from my days of living and boating on the Lake, that I personally have had to put in to someone's dock for cover, and I had boats blown ashore at my house needing assistance during a storm.
Considering the very unpleasant consequences which can happen if the weather gets ahead of you, I always played it very safe, even if it meant losing a day which turned out to be a good boating day.
Remember, it's not nice to fool (with) Mother Nature.
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