weather report obsession

back in boston, you are bombarded by the weather report. what, every 7 minutes or something, on the TV, you can get the weather - "weather on the 7s". same for the radio, it seems. there is a weather obsession there.

well, here in cabarete, i really have no idea what the weather will be on any given day. this is because there is no DR TV station that gives a report on the weather for cabarete. well, there probably is a TV station out of santo domingo, but that would be in spanish of course. i don't tend to watch that station. there's only one english speaking radio station here, but we never listen to that.

now the wind report is another matter. people here are obsessed with the wind report. they need to know if they can go out kitessurfing or windsurfing. there are many internet sites here that provide detailed wind reports.

our only means for getting the weather report is the internet, with the closest location on weather.com being puerto plata. now we all know that weather reports are never very accurate, but i find the internet ones to be the worst of them all.

somehow though it feels liberating to not have to feel like i need to know the forecast. i guess you can do this here because the weather really does not affect what i would wear, like it would in boston. it's like 85 every day. no need to know if i need to bring a sweater or jacket. if it rains, i'll dry off pretty quickly after....