View Full Version : Okay, I like good WX, but this is ridiculous!
skookum
10-08-07, 08:30 PM
Okay, for may last two patrols (Nov-December 1940 and Jan-Feb 1941) I've had nothing but flat calm and blue skies. Not once during either partol did I see so much as a mouse fart of breeze or a drop of rain. I'm thinking bug but I can't figure out what may have changed. I haven't installed any additional mods since the prooblem began. The only mods I've got installed on top of GWX are Sobey's 3d waves, SH4 effects, a Camera mod and the standard GWX mods.
HELP!!!
I can't believe you are actually wanting bad weather. :rotfl:Your experience sounds like Utopia to some.
skookum
10-08-07, 10:08 PM
That is very true, but the windy days with big waves make for great screenshots, and lately I've been running a little thin on material due to the unusually good wx.
andylegate
10-08-07, 10:50 PM
I ran into that today, I was down mostly near the Med, CF and CG, sea state 0, no wind, couldn't believe it as for awhile there it seemed I always had bad weather. Then I started my long track up north, by the time I had gotten near northern Scotland, the weather turned bad, and I do mean bad!
So are you staying pretty much in the same area? Or are you encountering flat seas everywhere you go? Some of us would kill for that kind of weather!
Kpt. Lehmann
10-08-07, 11:01 PM
Be careful what you wish for, Skookum.;)
d@rk51d3
10-08-07, 11:35 PM
I had the same. 2 patrols of sunny skies, and seas like glass. I thought something was wrong, but that soon changed. Enjoy the calm while you can.:up:
skookum
10-09-07, 12:29 AM
Well I feel better knowing some Kaleuns have had similar bouts of extended good weather. My last two patrols were out of St. Nazaire southbound to North Africa via Gibraltar. Perhaps when I decide to transfer to Norway I'll get poopy wx again. Thanks!
Klaus_Doldinger
10-09-07, 02:32 AM
On the other hand... Iīve had many patrols with three-four weeks of endless atlantic storms. No one day without winds under 15 mps, and most of them with heavy rain and dense fog. Just good-bad luck with weather.
I donīt feel calm seas as ideal; you can be seen/heard easier; for me the ideal conditions for attack are wind 6-10 mps, no rain, and cloudy/overcast seas.
Huskalar
10-09-07, 03:37 AM
On my last one and a half patrols I've also experienced 'perfect' weather and it was also in Dec '40-Feb '41. But both these patrols brought me to the North Atlantic so I don't think that transferring the Norway will give you any guarantees. Although I can imagine that on average the weather will be worse there.
:sunny:
On my last patrol, I had weather changing every few hours. I was about to start bitching but remembered the weeks and weeks of rain and towering seas.
Steel_Tomb
10-09-07, 05:11 AM
Now you've said that you will get heavy seas with thick fog for the next few months lol.
I'd wish my patrols were like that! The moment I clear the Kiel canal, BANG! 200ms winds, rain drops the size of an car and a fog that prevents you seeing your own eyelashes! :shifty:
Ping Panther
10-09-07, 09:39 AM
I have been on my Med. runs again since that S-Class I took under and the Med. weather is very calm until recently. I took the advice to try patroling over to Malta just yesterday for some better hunting.
At first I was considering just rounding the island (deep channel at the north end is nice), but then the seas and winds started picking up as the sun set, all just due north of the Grand Harbor of Valletta! I'm now gearing due south, bobbing under for some hydrophone checks, then back up flank on the surface. If I can out-skirt the patrol craft in this fortunate bad weather and sunset, I'm good for tour of the Maltese harbor before sunrise! :sunny:
I'll send you all some postcards.
Captain Nemo
10-09-07, 09:41 AM
On my latest patrol I've had bad thunderstorms, heavy seas and rain right up the African coast from Dakar to southern Spain. Not a single break in the weather. Prior to this the weather during the patrol was changeable, but with good periods of fine weather. This morning I came across a Passenger Cargo and managed to hit it with one torp out of two but the weather claimed the kill:damn: .
Nemo
Jimbuna
10-09-07, 10:13 AM
I'd wish my patrols were like that! The moment I clear the Kiel canal, BANG! 200ms winds, rain drops the size of an car and a fog that prevents you seeing your own eyelashes! :shifty:
Phah!.....I get KABOOM! 300ms winds, rain drops the size of a lorry and fog that prevents you seeing at all! :o
Beat that!!
:rotfl:
Spruence M
10-09-07, 06:21 PM
Man, you say you are wanting some rain.
My boat has a unremovable feature called, "Atlantik Typhoon"....:damn:
:rotfl: :rotfl:
Rains, Pours, Deleuge, Heavy Seas, Hurricane force winds
Kaleu. Jochen Mohr
10-09-07, 08:04 PM
Okay, for may last two patrols (Nov-December 1940 and Jan-Feb 1941) I've had nothing but flat calm and blue skies. Not once during either partol did I see so much as a mouse fart of breeze or a drop of rain. I'm thinking bug but I can't figure out what may have changed. I haven't installed any additional mods since the prooblem began. The only mods I've got installed on top of GWX are Sobey's 3d waves, SH4 effects, a Camera mod and the standard GWX mods.
HELP!!!
gimme that! :o
@jim: when i passed ALMOAST halfway to the north of brittan i get such bad weather...
8 to 10m of waves and such thick fog i cant even see it rains :o
although i set SH3 weather to light wind, no rain, no fog, and calm seas :shifty:
what would it be then when seting it up for storms ? :hmm:
Kpt. Lehmann
10-09-07, 09:21 PM
OH YEAH???
Well I've got you all beat.
It rains so hard on my boat... that we have to run the electrics all the time and the watch crew needs scuba gear.
Binoculars are simple ornamentation. I give my watch crew portable hydrophones. To heck with binoculars. Who needs 'em anyway?
It rains so hard... I don't order periscope depth anymore. I just keep yelling for the crew to surface the boat.
It rains so hard on my boat... I'm upgrading my crew with gills and fins.
Beat THAT!!!:p
Kpt. Lehmann
10-09-07, 09:24 PM
... Once on my boat... It rained for six years and we missed the war... Had to start my career over.
:p :p :p
Kpt. Lehmann
10-09-07, 09:27 PM
...In fact, lately it has been raining so hard in my game... that God told me to save two of each animal...
Its gonna be a crowded boat.:arrgh!:
bookworm_020
10-09-07, 10:13 PM
At least the smell inside the boat would be less!:lol:
skookum
10-10-07, 02:29 AM
Well the bad weather returned, finally. But not before I bagged myself 93670 tons of merchant shipping and 5000 tons of warship for a grand total of 98670 tons! Yay me!:rock:
Captain Nemo
10-10-07, 06:20 AM
Well, I've had enough of the bad weather and after expending 5 torpedoes on a large merchant I'm going to pull into Vigo for a rest and have dinner with the crew of the Bessel. Hopefully, the weather will moderate whilst I'm there and I can look forward to some patrolling around the western approaches, then back home to Wilhelmshaven.
Nemo
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