Check this graphic out. As you can see "Invest 92" squarely hit Puerto Rico. By all accounts the system had reached tropical depression status by the time it was over eastern Puerto Rico and was named a tropical storm just as it entered the Mona Passage between PR and the Dom Rep. As I said in my blog post the other day that this low was pretty erratic and irrational. The center of the low actually tracked south of the island by almost 30 miles when all the forecast tracks had it going north. The lesson for me is that meteorologists cannot predict everything and even such with all the technology, the weather is very very difficult to predict on a micro scale.

One thing nice about my trip to the mangroves was it gave me a chance to use my sat phone again and practice getting my weather remotely. When ever you see a blog posted without a picture or graphic you know I used my sat phone.

I slept soundly last night and awoke to a pretty nice sunny day. Enjoyed a morning cup, pulled the anchored and re anchored in my old spot here in Salinas.


Capt Chris