A temporary system is adequate?
First of all, it is difficult to conceive of any temporary measure that could be classified as a “system”. See the next question for more on this. But a fundamental problem with any temporary measure, independent of its effectiveness, is well demonstrated by this first hand account from Joe & Kathy Siudzinski’s report of 27 October, 2003 , when they encountered some “Evening Unpleasantness”. The full account plus additional analysis is here. It’s getting darker, and lightning starts appearing. The wind drops off and eventually goes back to the north, but there is LOTS of lightning coming in from the west. Using the radar, I pick out a big cell moving fast towards us and after plotting it I decide to go north to avoid it because there is a lot of lightning to the south. This works, barely, as all this horrible stuff passes a couple of miles behind us. Now, this isn’t just inter-cloud lightning, this is huge massive bolts coming down and hitting the water! We try to compare notes with th
