George was a pirate, but he wasn’t a very good pirate.
When he was out at sea, he wouldn’t bother with a spyglass or a barometer or any of the traditional weather forecasting tools.
He’d pull out his cell phone and check the weather application on it.
Usually, he couldn’t get a signal, and he could only tell if it was raining by whether the cell phone was wet.
However, on the rare times he got a signal, he’d still get the forecast wrong.
Because he’d disabled the GPS locator, and would get the forecast from their home port’s location.