Ok, so I check seabreeze and the bom for general run downs on the wind in certain locations. However I am thinking about trying to actually learn how to read the graphs and make sense of highs and lows and all that jazz. Will doing so save me time waiting for the wind on the beach and driving an hour east, west and north? I have been caught out a few times when i've referenced bom and seabreeze, and headed an hour out to the beach thinking it will kick in, and there hasn't been a sparrow's fart worth of wind around.

Is it time to get educated?

Yeah experts do get it wrong mate. I think ill get it right because I'm god.


I'm trying to educate myself and therefore make more educated guesses when I'm driving an hour to get to a spot. Seabreeze and Bom offer a rough summary. I'd like to know whether I'd be better off being able to interpret the weather than just a green arrow or 20 knots around lunch?

trust no one

Start now ... So in time you will get a good feel for it. It's not hard I don't get what the fuss is about.. But then back in the day you could only predict swell quite roughly. And wind about three days or somin advance unless the pattern was really set in.
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But now!!!! I would just love the Internet to shut down so
I could get some uncrowded surf!!!!!

There is always more to learn.. I started at 13 and 20'years later I really only just started understanding the trough movements coz I started to kite and quit cursing the seabreeze!! Lol

As a yachtie who does the occassional distance offshore race I use this alot.

www.bom.gov.au/marine/wind.shtml

I find I can see what's coming much better than SB at times and also shows me the whole coast, not just set locations.

Yep its pretty easy. Highs go anti-clockwise, Lows go clockwise.

If a low is below 980 you know its going to be a howling front. The closer the isobars, the windier it will be.

as kids we had to learn without technology. just a weather map. now thats learning to read! especially as every area has its own characteristics.