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Marine forecast vocabulary, fog at Pemaquid, the line squall, gale warnings as practical literature.
Weather
A retired Naval Academy sailing coach in Annapolis has spent thirty years teaching midshipmen to read summer thunderheads on the Chesapeake. The grammar she teaches is older than radar.
Weather
A volunteer kayak instructor in Lunenburg has reviewed every cold-water immersion incident on the Nova Scotia coast since 2015. The temperature line between manageable and fatal is sharper than most paddlers know.
Weather
A weather facsimile machine still hangs on the bulkhead at the Halifax sailing school where Esther Beaulieu teaches small-boat weather. She thinks every coastal skipper should read a synoptic chart, even when the apps work.
Weather
A second-generation lobsterman out of Digby Neck has been keeping an air-temperature gradient log between the deck and the masthead since 2019. The numbers tell a story about Fundy fog the forecast cannot.
Weather
The British Shipping Forecast is the most celebrated weather product in the English language. A skipper on the Solway Firth reads it the way other people read poetry, and acts on it the way they cannot.
Weather
Line squalls kill more weekend sailors in the Chesapeake than any other weather phenomenon. A Hampton Roads sailmaker explains what to do in the eight minutes between seeing one and being inside it.
Weather
A volunteer weather observer at Pemaquid Point logged 218 fog hours in 2025. Her notebook reveals patterns the official station misses entirely.
Weather
The NOAA marine forecast is a closed dialect. A retired Coast Guard meteorologist in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, walks through what the words actually mean for a 26-foot boat on a Friday afternoon.