In my area we are to have a "Brown pants" day

www.windy.com/

One thing Ive noticed is that for Port Phillip it always shows the wind strength less in the bay than it is, real time or forecast as measured on South Channel Island.
I suspect it drops the wind strength over land by default of programs algorithms. I add 5 knots to their forcast for the bay and if i position the pointer a mile off the bay's entrance in Bass Strait it's about right.

McNaughtical said..

SemusMcgilicoty said..
Wow... almost beautiful...

Cheers

I love windyty... I put it on the screen at work... it's like a relaxing screensaver..lol... and I love looking at obscure places on earth to see what's happening there.

I have a third edition copy of Ocean Passages for the World and have been checking out sailing vessel routs and comparing them to the global view of wind patterns on Windyty at different times of the year. It's very interesting to see how storms track and for example at this time of year, the easterly trade winds make the obvious driver for passage making from say Galapagos Is to the Pacific Is and on to Australia, and to see what goes on at the Southern and Northern edges of the trade winds. Also how problematic it is to get to New Caledonia from around the Sunshine Coast, the present low off Southern NSW would give someone a good start though. The first half of the journey would be ok but after that it would be a battle with headwinds and calm. A good supply of fuel would help!
The quote at the beginning of this edition:

Oh God be good to me,
Thy sea is so wide and my ship is so small.
Breton fisherman's prayer

Guitz said..
One thing Ive noticed is that for Port Phillip it always shows the wind strength less in the bay than it is, real time or forecast as measured on South Channel Island.
I suspect it drops the wind strength over land by default of programs algorithms. I add 5 knots to their forcast for the bay and if i position the pointer a mile off the bay's entrance in Bass Strait it's about right.

+1 Guitz