Recently I took two local boat trips, one in Salem Sound and the other in Gloucester harbor, in some pretty unsettled weather conditions. To help assess the weather risks, I tuned into a handful of NOAA weather radio stations. Unfortunately, in each case, I heard a lot of information which was either irrelevant or outdated, and sometimes both. I needed specific forecast information for the Sound at 5:50 pm, but what I heard was mostly information on other locales, recorded earlier in the day. Occasionally, the taped broadcast would cite the Sound, but the last update was 2 hours earlier [...]