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Jon Loman - 10 Jul 2003 21:16 GMT

Does anybody have an opinion about diving in Belize in October/beginning
November? Good or bad weather?

Jon

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Greg Mossman - 10 Jul 2003 21:58 GMT

> Does anybody have an opinion about diving in Belize in October/beginning
> November? Good or bad weather?

Two words: Hurricane season.

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Jim Lea - 12 Jul 2003 12:33 GMT

I was there in Oct last year. Beautiful.
Belize has been hit by just 2 hurricanes in the last 25 years.

> > Does anybody have an opinion about diving in Belize in October/beginning
> > November? Good or bad weather?
>
> Two words: Hurricane season.

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chilly - 12 Jul 2003 20:43 GMT

> I was there in Oct last year. Beautiful.
> Belize has been hit by just 2 hurricanes in the last 25 years.

??

I can count three in the past 5 years.

Hurricane Mitch
Hurricane Keith
Hurricane Iris

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Jim Lea - 18 Jul 2003 02:18 GMT

Hurricane Mitch did not land in Belize. It landed in Honduras.
You are right about Keith and Iris. That makes 2.

> > I was there in Oct last year. Beautiful.
> > Belize has been hit by just 2 hurricanes in the last 25 years.
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> Hurricane Keith
> Hurricane Iris

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Greg Mossman - 18 Jul 2003 03:08 GMT

> Hurricane Mitch did not land in Belize. It landed in Honduras.
> You are right about Keith and Iris. That makes 2.

On Ambergris Caye the waves came in 200' from the shoreline. Main Street
flooded 2.5' deep. They evacuated 6,000 people. Not a good way to spend a
dive trip, so it certainly counts in my book regardless of where the
hurricane "landed".

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chilly - 22 Jul 2003 05:21 GMT

> > Hurricane Mitch did not land in Belize. It landed in Honduras.
> > You are right about Keith and Iris. That makes 2.
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> dive trip, so it certainly counts in my book regardless of where the
> hurricane "landed".

My sentiments exactly, particularly since Mitch chewed up the reef, whereas
Keith and Iris did not.

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Old Goat - 22 Jul 2003 20:52 GMT

#
#Does anybody have an opinion about diving in Belize in October/beginning
#November? Good or bad weather?
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#Jon

Jon,

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pastall.shtml

Old Goat

Life isn't like a box of chocolates,
it's more like a jar of jalapeno's --
You never know what's going to burn your a.s.

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Jim Lea - 26 Jul 2003 03:20 GMT

I will be there again in October. Look at the stats!!!

> #
> #Does anybody have an opinion about diving in Belize in October/beginning
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> it's more like a jar of jalapeno's --
> You never know what's going to burn your a.s.

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