Weather

Pulled up the weather for GS next week looks like 60% chance of thunder storms all week :mad: hope your alls weather folks are as good as ours :D ,hate to fish in the rain and wont if I can hear thunder ,should help temps but humidity will be rough

That is just the typical summer weather profile for the Gulf Coast.
It is mainly pop up T-Storms in the afternoons and they usually pass through pretty quickly.
The saying down here holds true, "If you don't like the weather, give it ten minutes, it'll change."
A check of the local radar is the best bet, see if there are any 'Lines' of storms set to move through an area that would mean extended periods of rain or repeated soakings at short intervals.

It is fun to sit on the balcony of a condo and watch a thunderstorm pass through. The sun is shining in one direction and the sky is dark grey the other. You can see tents and umbrellas collapsing and a steady flow of multi colored inflatables blow down the beach. Lightning will be hitting the surface out in the gulf and you may get to see a water spout or two. 30 minutes later the sun will be shining again. Hope you guys have fun and catch a bunch of fish.

Yeah, we are coming down on Sunday for a week. Wife is having a fit worrying about it raining all week. Won't stop me and my son from fishing the pier but her and my daughter are worried about the beach.

Tell them that mornings and afternoons are the primary rain times, and that most storms pass within a half hour, then it is back to beach time as usual.
No big deal, grab a drink or snack, hit the ladies room and back to the beach.

Two years ago we saw a family spend half of a day blowing up a massive inflatable raft/boat at Dauphin island. Sunny all morning, but then a storm popped up out of nowhere and blew it about a mile out into the gulf. A boat pulled up to it, and the family started cheering thinking they would tow it back to shore.

The boat proceeded to drag the float off into the horizon towards ft morgan.

About the only time it rains "all day" this time of year is when a tropical system is overrunning the area.
Our typical 'popcorn' thundershowers are usually small and short lived.
This renders long range computer modeling nearly useless, at least for 'pinpoint' weather predicting.

get an Indian Weather Rock ;-)
http://www.gulfshorespierfishing.com...tid=6443&stc=1

Thanks thats the same chart they use up here lol we are between the smokey mountains and the cumberland platue so its very unpredictable here most of the time:D

Sometimes you need an excuse to leave the pier and go to J&M to reload on that one thing they are biting that you are down to your last one of-and grab a J&M t-shirt. And hit Cobalt's dessert case on the way back.

I like the way you think chillin. And for that, you will receive a new J&M t-shirt for your post. Hit me up the next time your in town.

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Originally Posted by john g

I like the way you think chillin. And for that, you will receive a new J&M t-shirt for your post. Hit me up the next time your in town.

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You got a deal!

We had the same forecast last week and honestly speaking, it did rain, but who cares? You can't control it, and there will be a lot more sun and/or sun with clouds (you better hope there are clouds) than there will be rain.

Enjoy that place....it is freaking awesome.

Rain makes cloud cover and both help keep the water temps down. I know of a couple of years that it was so hot and sunny that there was not a king caught the month of August. Instead of worrying about a 60% chance of rain think about the 40% it's not..

Good things happen when it rains ;)

I will be out there no matter the wet stuff,I might float but aint going to melt :barbershop_quartet_

the weather is here, wish you were beautiful.

Thank you, Mr. Buffett.