well i will be up friday evening and be parked up in the estuary..............not staying overnight though eh wardens!
At a house party fri night, working saturday morning then should be in the estaury for about 6pm to catch an evening sail and then kgb
action on sunday!
Will - I got a good feeling about the Gorge-Effect this weekend! Also gonna be 26 Cels and no clouds all weekend!!! 
thinking of coming up saturday evening as well be good to get the cobwebs of norn, as well as me,
monster contras just incase.. but fingers crossed for the gorge effect and an intresting new toy in tow!!!!
if it doesn't drop anymore i'll be there, but on nights sunday so be left by 2...dooohhhhhhh
Is this the tehpro model then COL?!
is it on of those things that smoke comes out of the back?
Weather certainly looks good... lots of sunshine (on Sat) and decent temperatures... Its a little late in the year for Ivor to put in a
proper appearance, but he might do first thing in the morning probably not as strong as it can be but maybe enough.
Al.
If the wind is easterly and the land hot later on what happens to the sea breeze, does it just stop or what
There's never a yes or no answer, but if the land is hot enough for an afternoon sea-breeze but the general windflow is easterly then
yes, the easterly wind may well cancel out the sea-breeze effect.
Which one wins and how strong the wind will be (or from what direction it will be) obviously depends on the relative strengths of the
two opposing winds.
To put my neck on the line I reckon Ivor will be blowing down the estuary in the morning this weekend, probably not particularly
strongly but stronger than the general forecast of 5-6 knots, maybe 15-20 knots if we are lucky. He'll probably peak around 8-9am. How
strong he will be depends on the amount of cloud cover and how much the temps fall overnight.
Once the land begins to warm up he'll soon ease off and the forecasted 6 knots or so E will be in effect.
By midday the sea-breeze effect will start to oppose the E wind and in the afternoon a gentle sea-breeze will probably fill in,
although I doubt it will come to much.
I could of course be talking complete and utter b****cks, and it is only Thursday, so by the time the weekend arrives the curently
forecast light E winds clear skies and warm temps for the weekend may have changed anyway!... We'll just have to see what the day
brings.
Al.
the sea breeze has overcome the easterly winds these past few weekends asnd become strong enough for a good session on the front;
infact it has been enough for the 11 sonics to come out. fingers crossed Col
fingers crossed indeed master blue...bbc are now showing 12mph easterly
u're right Col, 12 mph E could mean a solid 20knots..yeeehaaaa
Not for me dudes, I'm teaching powerboat
You should have been here today... Not a cloud in the sky and a totally steady 23 knots all afternoon.... I was still too ill to get
out there though
It isn't looking great for the weekend at the mo.
Al.
sorry guys it's my fault, i have a weekend off, am desperate for a sale have a new board etc.... i'm the jinx. i feel crap about it. i'm sorry.
yea lets blame will
Yip, same wind here in dyfi Al, gorgous!!!
Will...... YOU BA****D!!!
how could you be so selfish?
Why can't you work a bit longer - save a few more cats - and let the rest of us have some fun???
found out tonight that to find out if a sea breeze it gonna happen you should look at he inland paragliding sites. nice thermals inland mean wind on the coast and if the wind before the sea breeze is eastery it will increase our nw sea breeze because it will blow air over it and back out to sea rather that opose it. must find out some more info so i can plan these winds better and plan work around them next year. soon the water will be too warm and no more thermal wind.
Just so that you know, Ivor, the katabatic wind has been working this morning... currently E at 16-20 knots.
Al.
20 knts this morning!!! Lets hope it does the same for sat + sun
And thats here with 22 knot gusts.... in the estuary it may be a little more.
Al.
It looks as though Ivor is no running out of steam a little now today, but he did peak at 24 knots here at my house this morning, which
probablty relates to close to 30 knots in the estuary... Maybe he is going to be on form this weekend??
Al.
Even though the tides are all wrong I may do a mad early morning dash to catch Ivor tomorrow. If it is much like today it may be worth it.
quote:
Originally posted by chris
if the wind before the sea breeze is eastery it will increase our nw sea breeze because it will blow air over it and back out to sea rather that opose it.
I was out today and although Ivor had some effect early on, by the time high tide came it was dropping off. Less chance to get a good
session tomoz with the later high tide.
I ended up using my 9.0m to get well powered up in the channel after high tide. You might need to be early to catch Ivor, hopefully
there'll be some water!
Andy
Yep... Just been down to the estuary, plenty of wind... 20 knots + but no water!
Al.
quote:
Originally posted by justal
To put my neck on the line I reckon Ivor will be blowing down the estuary in the morning this weekend, probably not particularly strongly but stronger than the general forecast of 5-6 knots, maybe 15-20 knots if we are lucky. He'll probably peak around 8-9am. How strong he will be depends on the amount of cloud cover and how much the temps fall overnight.
Once the land begins to warm up he'll soon ease off and the forecasted 6 knots or so E will be in effect.
By midday the sea-breeze effect will start to oppose the E wind and in the afternoon a gentle sea-breeze will probably fill in, although I doubt it will come to much.