Excellent post. I'll pile on. I find their "forecasts" to be basically useless and I use them like background music. There are so many other sources of information, like real time wind and sea data, available on the web, and forecasts on the web. I still remember when we were riding out a hurricane back in 1997 and all I had was NOAA broadcasts as my weather forecast. The day before the hurricane hit their air time was totally full of useless crap like "....board up your windows,,,,,,don't leave your children outdoors....". Far as I'm concerned they should have their budget zeroed.