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Originally Posted by Stiebler
Point (3) means that there can be a repeat of the same bad weather overwriting corrected (fixed) weather. The original code is complex, and it is not clear why the bad weather becomes rewritten. But in any case, this event incurs infrequently. My new code means that the new, calm weather will be rewritten up to four times before it gives up the attempt. In practise, this is sufficient - sooner or later (and this creates a random element) the original code abandons the attempt to overwrite the new, fixed weather.
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Thank you for clarifying this for me, Stiebler. Your explanation is straightforward.
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Originally Posted by Stiebler
The short answer is yes, I can change the four attempts to rewrite bad weather to two attempts. Or even one attempt, whatever is needed.
But why would anyone want foggy-storms for 12 days? I have never heard of such an event outside the Indian Ocean during the Monsoon season. There is nothing unusual about storms in the Atlantic, especially in winter and spring, but storms with zero visibility for 12 days? Never heard of it.
I do happen to know that, during refuelling operations at a U-tanker (milk-cow) in 1943, several U-boats were stranded for up to a week owing to heavy seas preventing refuelling. But this was so rare that the event was remarked upon by all those who were involved.
Equally, fogs around Newfoundland are commonplace at certain times of year. But fogs AND high winds? Nope.
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I do agree with you that a period of 12 days with zero visibility is abnormal. I also do believe that fogs & high winds occurring simultaneously is quite wrong for obvious reasons. Therefore, what i have written above was not a suggestion ; i did not express myself correctly.