Cruisers are obsessed with weather forecasts. The main phenomena we watch in forensic detail are the fronts coming at us, specifically the lows…
Why are there so many storms in the tropics?
Because they happen so quickly they are difficult to forecast, but we were getting used to them coming in at around 1 o’clock from the south-west to west.
A night and day of rolling squalls
With lightning displays at every point of the compass, we both stayed on watch throughout the night. Before dawn we’d had enough, those three squalls and the ones that followed had sapped our energy.