Personally I use a combo of the BOM ( I cant spell bureau) site and the weather channel synoptic images.

What I want to know is what does everyone else use ?
Especially for Southern Tassie where seabreeze doesn't predict, and how accurate do you find this system?

BOM 4 day charts pretty much tell it all.
Otherwise tea leaves, tarot cards, crystal balls, sacrificial burnings of young virgin goats, that type of stuff.

I use Easties Pagan ritual approach, plus, for an idea of what may happen I use BOM's Marine services colour graphs. Like anything, there sort of ok for up to 2-3 days but give you up to 7 days out.

If your looking at sailing around Hobart forget about Bom's South East Coast Forecast it's more suited to offshore area's and should only be used as a general guide. Stick to their Marine sevices colour charts, they are more accurate in shore. Check the Derwent Eastury and Storm Bay forecast issued the day before.

Nothing beats reading a Chart, especially in summer when local knowledge is a benifit for seabreeze's from south, south east or East/North East.

Hmmm. Is Andrew still around?

Does he still sell gear. His names mentioned on the wt site

FoS,
Gestalt used this site http://forecasts.bsch.au.com/gfs_plot.html# prior to Burrum this year . You can set it to whatever parameters you want e.g. 1knot gradients, latitude , longitude etc. Found it to be really accurate (well as accurate as forecasting goes anyway) and gives you 7 days forecast at minimum +/-3 hour or max +/-24 hour intervals.

Hit the "winds + Streams" in the quicklinks just below the "GFS Forecast run" bar, then in "Variables" row put your preferred wind gradient in far right box (it's default is in 5 knot gradients but I set this to two as you get a much more colourful picture ). Then in the "Map Projection" set lat/lon co-ords in of region you want, then hit "request plot".

This is the BoMs one I occasionally use as well although clarity/flexibility not as good as above. www.bom.gov.au/jsp/marine/wind/index.jsp

buzzy said...

Be aware! Sausage is only trying to be nice so he can butter us up before asking for the $365 for posts and replies that he's owed

PS - doesn't look too promising for you guys this weekend either (although Seabreeze is showing different).

FoS said...

Also none has picked up the LOG and run with it yet ? doesn't anyone read these things

We're just used to your spelling!