Author George Day

Every morning across the country, weather professionals employed by the National Weather Service, the forecasting arm of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, launch weather balloons into the sky. These balloons collect real-time data on wind speed and direction, barometric pressure at a range of altitudes and more The data is fed into the NWS forecast model known as the GFS along with data from NOAA satellites and a host of other sources. The GFS combines data from four distinct models: atmosphere, ocean, land/soil and sea ice. The result is a six-times a day forecast update for the planet and…

On Wednesday, Hinckley Yachts of Portsmouth, Rhode Island announced that it had finalized the acquisition of the Bay Bridge Marina on Kent Island, Stevensville, Maryland. The deep-water marina and marine facilities lie at the epicenter of the Chesapeake Bay’s yachting region. “Bay Bridge Marina is a wonderful location that allows us to offer our customers the best possible experience on the Chesapeake,” said Gavin McClintock, CEO of Hinckley. “This is an exciting step in strengthening our service network while also providing a world-class marina destination for discerning yachtsmen.” The new marina, which is well established  and respected throughout The Chesapeake, adds…

The short video below of a humpback whale swallowing a man in a kayak has been making social media rounds and there has been some confusion and speculation about what really happed. “I thought it had already eaten me and swallowed me,” Adrián Simancas told the Associated Press in an interview about his shock encounter off the coast of Chilean Patagonia. And, the clip does seem to show that Simancas was in the wrong place at the wrong time just when rthe giand humpback opened its giant maw as it was feeding along the coast. It certainly looks like the whale then spat out…

Here’s a somewhat strange story of a situation gone bad that the Coast Guard and other rescue services along the California coast worked together to remedy. Earlier this week Coast Guard Sector Los Angeles received a distress call at 8 pm. The call was  from TowBoat US in Ventura which was relaying a VHF call from a sailor on a sailboat in distress 18 miles east of Catalina Island. Apparently, the sailor had fallen asleep and when he awoke his friend and his friend’s dog were missing and the dinghy they had been towing was gone.  The sailor reported that…