buy a kite for your location and average and save yourself the stress of traffic and enviorn impact etc.
you can always travel later when you have time and a plan.

thestig said...

Does anyone actually know why the North Head wind meter always ends up blowing around 5-7 knots lower than botany bay does

Because it gets 5-7 knots less wind

For some reason Botany gets better seabreezes. I don't claim to understand why, but it has always been the case.

On the other hand the Northern Beaches do have much better spots for southerlies and big swell / surf

Palm beach still seems to get wind.

But the rest of the Northern Beaches sucks. It only happens when the weather heats up.

Localised wind patterns can be amazingly diverse. Local topography plays an enormous part in wind strength, direction and stability.

The distance over water between the two wind graphs for Newcastle, Nobbys and Norah Head, is about 40 km, yet the difference in wind can be substantial.

More incredibly, I have witnessed a Nor Wester blowing on Lake Macquarie, whilst a Nor Easter is blowing on 9 mile beach. A distance of at most 2 km. Still can't work that one out nor would believe it if I hadn't witnessed it.

Another consideration is the location of the wind gauge, which obviously has an effect on the readings.

If I were in your position, I would buy a bigger kite and go to your local rather than waste time in traffic.

It's happening now,





Can anyone who understands weather please explain this to me?

Does the moving air meet in the middle and rise or.... what?

I am still deeply scarred from working 5 weeks in Mona Vale a few summers ago. Had my gear in the car everyday and only got a couple of very average sessions the whole time.

5 years ago spent 10 weeks cruising up the coast in a camper van from Melbourne to Magnetic Island. Was hoping to kite daily. I got 6, maybe 7 sessions... I put it down to bad luck, but from I read here the East coast just generally has crap wind!?

Joe Cron said...

It's happening now,





Can anyone who understands weather please explain this to me?

Does the moving air meet in the middle and rise or.... what?

Just ignore it and blame climate change for it. That will always work.

Or start here www.seabreeze.com.au/info/wind.asp
An explanation to that could be a bit lengthy - especially if the butterfly flapped its wings in south America

You should try going to Palmie north end. When I used to live there it would crap at Narrative and 15/20 at Palmie. For some reason I think it all the buildings there but at Palmie it funnel through the heads and wraps in. I used to have some sick session out there when narrative had nothing.

It would be nice to put a wind meter at Narrabeen or Long Reef. I saw that it was advertised on Seabreeze but disappeared.

I use coastalwatch.com to track kitesurfers, however it looks like they all got better skills than me and can perfectly ride 10 meters kites while I'm struggling on 12.