Forecast is for a 20-25 knot SSE, in Gero this would nearly always become a solid southerly. Just wondering what people's experience is with this wind direction in Perth? Does it normally straighten up or stay a bit offshore and gusty. Obviously ill check it out before hitting the water, but am thinking of booking in with the down wind taxi.

Appreciate your experiences.

Dave

Hmmm, doesn't sound too optimistic! Fingers crossed.

Well that sucked, it stayed SE in metro, but swung into a nice 20k southerly in Gero. And today it's a dropping E in Perth and Gero has 25 southerly already.

It really is an amazing difference, given its only 400ks apart. I need to live AND WORK in Gero!

SaveTheWhales said..
lots to learn - I take my bearings for perth wind between garden island - the airport and ocean reef... 400ks you say

Lots to learn? Yup, I need to learn to stay in Gero more for sure!

Ive found the Ocean Reef meter to give a pretty close correlation with the coast, certainly Scarbs area anyway.

That's a really useful graph. When you look at the wa southern waters version which includes the Midwest it looks as though the Midwest gets more wind because the coast line is more westerly. If you go out west from Perth to the same longitude it has the same wind. Interesting and thanks!