How was the wind drop yesterday,

sorry i am not sufficiently technically minded to attach the WA mtro graph but i was very well powered with my 8m (full depower on the strap),went out the back and wind died before i could head back to the beach!!!!!

Had to work the kite mad to get back in and actualy body dragged the end


No drama but i thought that it was pretty impressive watching it drop sooo fast.

Anyone else got in the same situation?

What time did you guys get in then?

When i left the beach at 6pm, it was nukin...........sand was flying everywhere!

If you look at yesterdays wind charts they are quite interesting (well to nerdy fellows like me anyway). Yes nuking up north until after dark but check out Safety bay and then Mandurah - different scenarios toward the end of the day - wind started later and dropped earlier.

I'm still developing an understanding of the mysteries of the wind goddess. Can you explain this one to us mere mortals Laurie?

One strange thing I experienced yesterday as the wind dropped, was the wind on the water seemed to be blowing in a slightly different direction to the wind up where my kite was. So my usual approach of judging where to put my kite based on the surface wind was wrong. Wind was slightly offshore up high but cross shore down low. Possible?

Yeah have had that once when the wind went from "I think I am a bit overpowered to holy crap my kite just fell out of the sky,to off shore ,all in about 10 seconds."

I was in close but the other guy kiteing was about 300m out trying to swim in with all his kit with a light off shore , no ground made, gotta love that lifesavers now have jetskis on the beach.

Priceless

I think the explanation lies on a more local scale.

There's mention in the article about a seabreeze front which sweeps inland when the river was still.

Imagine if there was an easterly that day.
As the land warmed up, that would be directed upwards and 'suck' the cooler air in from the sea.
Where the two meet would be the front.

If the front is inland to you, you'll say 'seabreeze'.

What's happened, is that front was just inland that day and then it shifted further out to sea. (It isn't a straight line up-down the coast either, hence better seabreezes on different parts of the coast)

Check out yesterday's graphs for Perth! That front sat in between Rotto and Swannie / Ocean Reef between about 4-7pm (but was non-existent OR west of Rotto at other times). The easterlies blew that rising hot air out to sea before it could go upwards properly.