ab1974 1 Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 You up in the PwC building AC? Link to post Share on other sites
Fogg 427 Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 Yup. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 When does summer officially end? Link to post Share on other sites
Fogg 427 Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 When does summer officially end? 1 week. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 Bugger, strangely the water temp is higher now than it has been all year. Link to post Share on other sites
Grinna 2 Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 When does summer officially end? When does summer start??? Link to post Share on other sites
Megwyn 2 Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 When does summer officially end? When does summer start??? touche Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 When does summer officially end? When does summer start??? touche When does daylight savings finish Im hoping for over 25kts tonight.....that should get the cruisers racing along nicely. Link to post Share on other sites
Fogg 427 Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 It's not funny, this summer is a tragedy.... Stephen - even if you're not on the water I hope the new camera is waterproof! Link to post Share on other sites
khayyam 77 Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 Though is 20knots at RNZYS and 24 knots NNE at Bean Rock at the moment. Is this info available online somewhere or only radio? http://www.wind.co.nz also has the nowcast info (i think) Link to post Share on other sites
Bimini Babe 0 Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 I highly recommend this weather forewast website - it's by far the most accurate I've ever found. Link to post Share on other sites
Megwyn 2 Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 I highly recommend this weather forewast website - it's by far the most accurate I've ever found. Classic! Link to post Share on other sites
OYSTR 1 Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 I highly recommend this weather forewast website - it's by far the most accurate I've ever found. It's f@#king wrong, it's not f@#king nice, it's f@#king raining. Link to post Share on other sites
203 0 Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 Best thing i do, Is look at the forecast, Go the the beach/marina, Then decide if I wanna go or not, ITs all about feeling comfortable with the boat, If your not, Then its best not to go out. Link to post Share on other sites
tuffyluffy 76 Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 When does summer officially end? When does summer start??? If you'd like a silver lining to your crap weather cloud, the weather over here in Sydney has been complete rubbish as well. http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/i ... 6271695175 I cant help but feel a little smug knowing i havent missed summer in Akl. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 Well for once the metservice had under predicted the wind as it was above 25kts there for a while tonight untill it died out. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 We recently came ashore after 3 months on the boat in the north (Gulf to BOI this year). We usually use METvuw which we have found pretty useful over the past 3 years. This time around we reckon that the Metservice forecasts (i,e the nowcasting chanels) are consistantly 5 knots below what is happening with wind speed. We think there is a problem within their computer model - it has been that consistant. 5 knots sound like f*ck all but, for us on our moderate displacement 45 foot boat, it means the difference between a jolly day sail and a whole lot of heart attack inducing winch work. Link to post Share on other sites
idlerboat 116 Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 for OZ and near by.. http://www.bom.gov.au excelant ! and getting better. plus http://www.passageweather.com for a broader less "sensitive" picture. I start at least 5 days out to get the trend. Learning the isobars and patterns is a great help. Most computer generated forecasts dont take into account "fronts"....because until they start programing in VERY local history they cant. It will happen in time, but even though I aint an old fuddy duddy....Look up ! Local cloud trends are amazing as broad predictors. It has taken me years to relise just how good they are. Yes they can "lie" but if combined with a 4 day isobar chart...all the other internet predictions...you can get close.... What is far far better is to be able to look to the sky and say to someone ...I think its going to get windy in 24 hours.... and being right. Great for the ego sure, but it makes a differance how you think about the weather. Storm clouds...roll clouds...long wisps at high alltitude...titty clouds..(see if you can work that one out) ...and a few years ago clouds named because of the huge heat from bush fires....awesome.. and when you are out there on the water...it will be a cloud that will tell you that you need to do something quick or be in deep sh*t...Not a weather broadcast. The further from land bassed influence the more accurate it is.. Now a drift from the original post, but I now use my radar to try and get around local storms.. parden my spelling Link to post Share on other sites
Fogg 427 Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 So in simple terms what does all this online forecasting wizzardry tell us about this weekend's forecast? Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 according to BB's link, f@#kin wet and f%&kin windy Link to post Share on other sites
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