You can determine if your vessel's position...

🔍 Key Concepts

• Dangerous vs. navigable semicircle of a hurricane relative to its direction of movement • How wind direction changes over time (veering vs. backing) tells you whether the storm’s center is passing to one side or the other • Using successive storm positions from weather bulletins to determine your relative location to the storm track

💭 Think About

• Ask yourself: If the wind at your vessel steadily shifts clockwise (or counterclockwise), what does that usually mean about which side of the storm you’re on? • How can plotting two or more reported storm centers on a chart help you see the storm’s direction of movement and your position relative to its right or left side? • Think about whether one method alone is enough, or whether combining both methods gives a more reliable indication of which semicircle you’re in.

✅ Before You Answer

• Be clear on the definitions: which side of the storm (right or left of its track in the Northern Hemisphere) is called the dangerous semicircle? • Verify what veering (clockwise shift) and backing (counterclockwise shift) winds indicate as the storm moves past you. • Confirm whether weather bulletin positions alone can tell you your semicircle, or if you must also interpret local wind changes.

You can determine if your vessel's position is in the dangerous or navigable semicircle of a hurricane by __________.

observing whether the wind is veering or backing

plotting two or more recent storm positions from weather bulletins

Both A and B

Neither A nor B

🔍 Key Concepts

💭 Think About

✅ Before You Answer