The Doniston needs to experience tropical weather. And sorry, but news reports on weather require someone or something to report the weather.
There is no doppler weather radar coverage in NicaLandia. There are very very few automated weather reporting stations in Nicaragua -- and those are 1990's technology and (barely) report the basics: temp, wind speed, direction. I can count on one hand the automated stations that report things such as dew point, relative humidity, isobaric pressure, etc. None -- none at all on the DAC or in THE Port.
I have -- quite literally -- stood on one side of the street in the sunshine while the rain poured down in buckets on the other side. In The Port!
I have -- quite literally and on numerous occasions -- watched one small cloud in an otherwise clear sunny sky grow to a cumulonimbus giant 25km across and probably 10,000 meters high over the course of an hour. Said clouds have dumped as much as 3" of rain in 1.5 hours -- and this was not on the road to THE Port where conditions are even more prone to drastic weather change.
The only other place I've ever experienced such dramatic, drastic, tho well-predicted weather events was in Aridzona where a dry creek bed could become a 3 meter deep raging river in the blink of an eye.
Doniston, you will get no warnings here of flash floods, tornadic activity, nor pretty weather girls showing off the latest doppler radar returns and the 5-day forecast. Does not exist.
It is a whole 'nother country.
Lead floats. Cork sinks.
The Land of the Not-Quite-Right.
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