We've got to have The Big One soon. She began by studying the charts of such storms as the great hurricane of 1938, then applied those lessons to current weather events. Months before the start of each season, Egan does a weather chart for the area within a 50-mile radius of Providence. Compiling a report for the season entails an afternoon to produce the charts, and three to four hours a day for several days to analyze the charts and write about them. Unusual and peculiar types of weather activity dot the landscape of the season.
Thunderstorms occur as fronts collide.
Sure, Egan acknowledges. But she learns from her mistakes by reexamining the charts for sun sign and planetary relationships she may have missed the first time around. We have our quacks as well as our experts. Astrology is still considered fringe. The afternoon I spoke with Egan, she had donned raincoat, scarf and umbrella to tromp through a downpour to meet me.