vancouver gets waaaay cold with big winds like in sin diego--but you guys get snow, dontye??---lol and the seas are large rollers by the time they get to sin diego---noaa suxx there too--lol--i like to see my sat pix and radars--more informative than the talk stuff---tstorms are fun to sail thru as long as ye donot get hit or have a deathly fear of lightning---lol---me n kat do--i prefer to avoid them ...but....stuff happens..lol