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Cape Breton 1
Thu Feb 12, 2004
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Hi, I'm Bryan Yeaton for The Weather Notebook. Cape Breton Island is a stunning, hilly land
plunked into the Atlantic just northeast of Nova Scotia. The Cape breeds hardy folks, who earn
their living from the sea.
JERRY: I'm Jerry Briand from White Point. I fish for a living.
JOHN: I'm John Dixon from White Point and, uh, I'm a lobster fisherman.
Jerry Briand and John Dixon haul their lobster pots pretty much every day, in season. It can
get pretty cold offshore, but the big problem is wind.
JOHN: Our worse air is north wind, or northeast or whatever. She blow pretty hard that way.
She gets pretty dirty, right?
BRYAN: Yeah.
JERRY: Like John said: 25, something like that, we gotta power off. I mean you can't do no
more for the day -- just a little too rough.
BRYAN: So, the, uh -- the direction of the wind really affects the -- the seas that you're
dealing with?
JOHN: Oh, for sure, yeah. North and northeast is our worst air.
BRYAN: South wind, the, uh, seas stay pretty calm?
JOHN: Yes, south is not too bad, it could blow pretty hard -- or southwest -- west is good
wind, too. Like I say northeast is our worst air.
BRYAN: Now, will you look for a specific type of weather before you head out or you just head
out and deal with it and decide out there?
JOHN: Oh, no. You just go and check her out and if it's good you stay and if it's not good
you come in. We go out about -- about 3:30 and we're back in around twelve or one o'clock in
the afternoon.
BRYAN: And, uh, how many times a week do you go out?
JOHN: Every day. Two hundred seventy five traps a day, right?
We'll continue with John and Jerry tomorrow. The Weather Notebook is produced by the Mount
Washington Observatory and funded by Subaru of America and the National Science Foundation. We
can be found online at weathernotebook.org. Special funding comes from Davis Instruments,
makers of the car chip -- the black box for your car. Thanks today to Technical Producer Doug
Sanborn. Thanks also to Marketing Manager Melody Nester.
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