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Vatos Locos

230 posts

Vatos Locos

230 posts

28 Aug 2012 1:47pm

Well mrs beach bum bailey YOU WERE WRONG AGAIN, WTF
thank god i didnt call in sick for the wind forecast today I'm glad it was my monthly ADO
GET IT RIGHT NEXT TIME BEACH BUM BAILY. GGRRRRR!!!

stjepan

NSW

124 posts

stjepan

NSW, 124 posts

2 Sep 2012 7:16pm

hahaha they get it %10 of the time, bastards should learn to shut up if they got know idea

Mikedobee

NSW

331 posts

Mikedobee

NSW, 331 posts

3 Sep 2012 3:57pm

I know man.......I am over it. It happened once or twice for these guys to be on the money!

It helps if you pray to Poseidon more....I know I do....

EnglishCraig

NSW

406 posts

EnglishCraig

NSW, 406 posts

3 Sep 2012 6:32pm

On a serious note, I know southerlys are generally unpredictable but the wind on Saturday was almost twice the predicted speed!!!! Could be a real issue for a beginner whose site assessment is based on picking out the wind speed from the forecast

Mikedobee

NSW

331 posts

Mikedobee

NSW, 331 posts

3 Sep 2012 9:36pm

I was in Newcastle Saturday, was it that powerful here in Sydney? In Newcastle, didn't seem to be more than 20 knots.

EnglishCraig said...

On a serious note, I know southerlys are generally unpredictable but the wind on Saturday was almost twice the predicted speed!!!! Could be a real issue for a beginner whose site assessment is based on picking out the wind speed from the forecast

jordangirdis

NSW

178 posts

jordangirdis

NSW, 178 posts

4 Sep 2012 7:35am

Mikedobee said...

I was in Newcastle Saturday, was it that powerful here in Sydney? In Newcastle, didn't seem to be more than 20 knots.

Sydney got very windy - up to 37knots. A few of us got caught out on 13m and 11m kites with raceboard a long way from home. It was an interesting downwinder to say the least!

EnglishCraig

NSW

406 posts

EnglishCraig

NSW, 406 posts

5 Sep 2012 1:20pm

Yep I include myself in that, was 15kts when I got to the beach, forecast up to 20 ish so put the 13 up. Was seriously sketchy gettin back in safely once the wind had kicked up

DrP00b

NSW

55 posts

DrP00b

NSW, 55 posts

8 Sep 2012 7:33pm

Using all the models and data they can accurately forecast the weather for one hour ahead but it takes 3 hours to work out.

laurie

NSW

3904 posts

laurie

NSW, 3904 posts

10 Sep 2012 11:50am

DrP00b said...

Using all the models and data they can accurately forecast the weather for one hour ahead but it takes 3 hours to work out.

Haha!

This is interesting ... how far we've come in such a short time...

www.seabreeze.com.au/Articles/Miscellaneous/A-history-of-weather-discovery_1216853.aspx

From 2009:
A $30 million, four-year project to create Australia's biggest weather computer is underway.

The new supercomputing system, being built for the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) and Australian National University (ANU), will make weather predictions more accurate.

The BOM machine will have the capacity to make about 1.5 trillion complex weather calculations a second as it crunches through weather data from around the country

www.news.com.au/technology/weather-gets-better-with-supercomputer/news-story/3a3dc4fbe35376d7e2a201209b7fcb1a

stjepan

NSW

124 posts

stjepan

NSW, 124 posts

11 Sep 2012 10:21am

funny thing is computers cant read or tell the weather, we need weather stations every 5kms for computers to collect data then maybe predictions will be more accurate

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