Hi Bobbie,
Thankyou for your post. Unfortunately, I live about 2 hours away from the nearest beach, and the weather differs slightly down there to where I am, in the goldfield mountains. If it's pouring rain at the beach, you can be almost certain that it's sunny here. So it's a bit hard to gauge when to go down to the water "after a storm"! I do know though, that in Summer, that's the time to hit the beaches in Australia, for you get swimmers losing their jewelry, in the water and in the sand when they "shake" their towels off. About 4 months ago, I went to the beach for the first time with the Quattro, and in 10 minutes picked up a diamond ring, a plain gold band and a gents silver ring. I've since sold the jewelry which helped me to recoup some of the money I spent on the detector! Also alot of the beaches here are situated in a bay, so they would be to some degree protected from a good storm, I suppose.
But living on the goldfields provides me with ample opportunity to detect.
Cheers, Angela