Early reports in from Sandy, and it seems the easterlies of the past week at Shallow Inlet and 'longarms' are closer to the 'gust' strength than the 'average' strength that is measured at the new Yanakie automatic weather station.
Be interesting to hear how it goes as we get some westerlies and SW'ers, but at least for east'ers its a good sign, particularly for those that like a wavesail.
Any comments @djwally??
BTW: location, according to lat/lon on BoMsite, is www.google.com.au/maps?q=-38.81+146.19&hl=en&ll=-38.813764,146.180477&spn=0.069286,0.151577&sll=-37.860283,145.079616&sspn=1.123261,2.425232&t=p&z=13
Yeah looks to me that the gust strength at yanakie is the best guide to what the wind is really doing.
I had a quick look at the inlet yesterday when my mate was packing up and it seemed to be 20 -25 from the east.
I sailed at the shop on a 5m and was overpowered at times out the back and the graph is only showing 15Knots.
Well it today was ENE and at long arms Yanakie was probably on average 10 knots lower than what was coming in. Most of morning it would have been 33-38knts at long arms. I was out on smallest wave board and 4.0 and way too overpowered. Prom was showing between 36-45 knots.
Definitely the hardest walk back across we've ever had.
At the gap both yesterday and today, Yanakie gusts were a good guide.
Yesterday 25knots - 4.7 to 4.2 wind
Today about 28-30 knots, prob with some gusts over 30 - 3.7s were the go.
Would've been really offshore at longarms today, considering the gap was cross-off.
