North Sails Weather Forecast – Thursday 23 January
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UPDATE 0800hrs
THU 23 8am
SITUATION
High pressure remains close by to the North Island – just to the north with a rather soft SW-S flow over Northland.
Very little chance over the last couple of days and varying little through to tomorrow and the end of the regatta.
In Auckland, the west and east coasts are rather close – so the dominant afternoon SW-S breeze gets across to the City and East Coast Bays during the afternoon. Nut for Northland and the BOI – the 2 coasts are further apart and hence the west coast breeze does not get across until quite late.
TODAY
A slightly better offshore SW/6-8 kt flow this morning. That will soften as the temperature climbs this morning
Similar trend to yesterday – soft mid to late morning and then it should fill NNW-N by midday with max breeze mid afternoon but persist well into the evening before back the swing to the S.
Mix of cloud and sun
FORECAST (magnetic direction and average wind speed in kts, not gusts)
08 OBS SW/6-8
10 softening SW/6-3-0 shifting SW-W-NW
12 340-360/6-9
14 350-010/13-16
16 340-360/14-17
18 330-350/13-16 easing and back to S for the night
FRI 24
FORECAST
08 S-SSE/5-8
10 S/6-3 then variable
12 N/9-12
14 N/10-13
16 NNW/12-15
18 NNW/10-13
THU 23 00am
SITUATION
High pressure remains close by to the North Island – just to the north with a rather soft SW-S flow over Northland.
Very little chance over the last couple of days and varying little through to tomorrow and the end of the regatta.
In Auckland, the west and east coasts are rather close – so the dominant afternoon SW-S breeze gets across to the City and East Coast Bays during the afternoon. Nut for Northland and the BOI – the 2 coasts are further apart and hence the west coast breeze does not get across until quite late.
TODAY
Similar trend to yesterday – rather soft mid morning and then around to the NNW-N by midday with max breeze mid afternoon.
Mix of cloud and sun
FORECAST (magnetic direction and average wind speed in kts, not gusts)
08 SSW/5-8
10 softening SW/4-7 shifting SW-W-NW
12 330-350/6-9
14 340-360/14-17
16 340-360/14-17
18 330-350/13-16 easing and back to S for the night
OUTLOOK
FRI 24 S/4-7 then NW-N/10-13 easing later afternoon back left to S/5-10 in the evening