I was out kiting in about 20knt ne wind at about 5pm this arvo on the lake at the enterance,central coast, when over about 5mins the wind died to approx 5-8knts. I couldnt keep my kite up, but thought the wind will come back soon. It didn't I swam in about 500m and then walked back to my launch area. This took about 45mins and when I got back still no wind. There was no change in the weather and when I got home I looked at the graph and was amazed to find nothing out of the ordinary. I should note that I have kited here quite a few times before and the location is ok in every wind direction from east to north

Here is norah head graph from this arvo. Its located about 10kms up the coast from where I was



Can any of you people with a better understanding of what makes the wind work explain what happened to the wind today?

Same thing happened to me down Sydney about 7pm, I ended up milking a long down winder to save the swim.then packed up and walked back. not happy.

mattyjee said...

aliens?

V ;)

It was fine at Nth Eny till 7ish when it went a bit north. Still plenty of wind out the back.

KnutH said...

In VIC it looked like this the whole day:


Explanations??

the south channel did not look like that all day, perhaps on that website, but that looks like when the cool change was coming through from the south west.
Have a look at this chart, you can see it was gusting the hot northly/west all over the shop until about 2pm when the change hit and it swung to the south.


you can see this graph at earthsci.unimelb.edu.au/engage/dynamic-earth-updates/bay-winds

....oh right....you were talking about Fawkner beacon.

i didn't even notice it tbh, too early in the morning perhaps.


ill get my coat

sounds like,,,HAARP,,,scary stuff