On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 05:02:41 +0000, Dave wrote:

When I was growing up in S.A., only real weather makers I remember were
fronts moving north to south, and, hurricanes/tropical storms in summer.
Weather from Mexico area was never in the picture. This is short term
climatology. Big change from where I sit. Any 50 or over people out there
with similar memories?

When I was growing up, we didn't have weather radar and satellite images,
so we had no way of telling where the weather was coming from, other than
the obvious (fronts from the north, hurricanes from the ocean).

YMMV.