North Sails Weather – Wednesday 24 Jan

Posted on

WED 24. 8am

 

SITUATION

Front crossed 7-8pm with a shift to  the S; max NW wind yesterday early to mid afternoon.

Today – S-SE flow then back to S for the afternoon.

Easing gradient strength tomorrow with less cloud the thermal shift left will probably get to E and possibly ENE-NE.

Less gradient strength for Friday – still from S but with less cloud and reasonable sunshine, the breeze should shift from SE to NE pretty quickly and be NE-N for the afternoon.

Another front will approach from the Tasman Sea at the weekend – flow back to the W then NW on Saturday and NW for Sunday ahead of the later in the day or at night.

 

TODAY

Still a S flow this morning – best breeze is over the ocean to the east and the west; over the land, the cooler overnight conditions have dampened the breeze. Mixing mid morning will increase the S breeze over the inner Bay. The breeze will tend a little left to SE on the east coast and over the eastern Bay during the later morning, then watch for the breeze to build and shift back right to the S – that’s the breeze from the west coast/Tasman and that will give the strongest wind of the day – mid and later afternoon. The left will be more prominent over the outer Bay, while the right S breeze will come from the south (but actually the west coast!). Dry with some cloud around.

 

FORECAST

  1. obs. S/4-7
  2. 160-170/10-13
  3. 140-160/7-11
  4. 120-150/6-12
  5. 150-170/15-18
  6. 150-170/15-20

 

AHEAD

THU 25. SW-S/4-8 at first, then S/12-15 shift left to SE-E/10-13 afternoon

FRI 26. SW then S/6-9 shift to E-NE-N/9-12 afternoon

SAT 27. W-SW/5-8 then NW/11-14 afternoon

SUN 28. W/4-8 then NW/13-17