Conditions on course with ‘Clouds’ / America's Cup

Team meteorologist Roger ‘Clouds’ Badham knows as well as most that sailing on San Francisco Bay is one of the most challenging places to sail, and that’s on a “normal boat” let alone an AC72.
When the teams line up to race  they will have a lot more than each other to worry about.

“First there are the mechanical challenges the teams face just to sail these boats, but then there is the physical strategy of where to put the boat on the race course. Where is the wind the strongest, where is the tide the most favorable and its changing minute by minute let alone leg by leg,” Clouds says.  More; News Story