It's been blowing 40 to 50 knots since sun rise Max gust 55knots Melbourne and Tassie your next!

it rained in tigers and wolfves just before bucket loads
suns out again now

This is interesting, as I'm reading a book on weather and trying to relate it to real world.
In the image above it looks like the the wind is circulating clockwise but in the image below the isobars show a high which is supposed to circulate anticlockwise?
I'm missing something here

arh, I just spotted the low of 981 just above the high.

May have fizzled out ?

Don't take it too literally keensailor, a High or Low is a relative term and simply means an area of pressure higher or lower than the surrounding area. So strictly speaking, there may be an area of pressure surrounded by lower pressure, but that does not mean the general characteristics of a high pressure system will be found in that area. Take a look at this, a few hours after yours, but you can see the characteristics of two low pressure areas now a further east from your chart.




The BOM chart shows two lows




Earthwindmap is a really good way to look at the relationship between synoptic charts and winds. But, when you get up to the tropics, you are better looking at Gradiant Level Wind Analysis charts as air pressure gradients are more spread out and don't give the best indication of wind, unless really intense like for cyclones.

The BOM wind site says its going to blow a gale plus some !! for a long time . Hang on to your hat and your dog !!

it starts at about 10pm tonight then cranks until after 4 am wednesday

www.bom.gov.au/marine/wind.shtml?unit=p0&location=vic-mel&tz=AEDT

This is the highest the pontoons have been on the poles in 10 years. Max gust was 59 knots.
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Windyty
www.windy.com/?-38.290,136.824,5
.......looks good but cant be trusted for accurate real time/place measurement. It says around 20 knots for southern Port Philip now however on the seabreeze real time graph Shouth Channel is blowing 35 Kn with gusts around 40 :(

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Guitz said..
Windyty
www.windy.com/?-38.290,136.824,5
.......looks good but cant be trusted for accurate real time/place measurement. It says around 20 knots for southern Port Philip now however on the seabreeze real time graph Shouth Channel is blowing 35 Kn with gusts around 40 :(

thats an interesting one . the 19th looks like a gale as well !!

There is a yacht from Melbourne called Luna approaching the prom about 15 miles due south of the Glennies at 11.30. Bet they'll be relieved when they drop anchor at Refuge!

@freeradical
There's some great info there, cheers.
It looks quite intense north west from the centre of that low.

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southace said..
This is the highest the pontoons have been on the poles in 10 years. Max gust was 59 knots.
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you might need to crack out the whipper snipper Southace

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HG02 said...

southace said..
This is the highest the pontoons have been on the poles in 10 years. Max gust was 59 knots.
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Hg rotation police;)

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crustysailor said..
you might need to crack out the whipper snipper Southace

Or an extra set of dock lines.

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Guitz said..
There is a yacht from Melbourne called Luna approaching the prom about 15 miles due south of the Glennies at 11.30. Bet they'll be relieved when they drop anchor at Refuge!

Luna reached the prom an hour or two before dawn yesterday and decided to wait till daylight to get into Refuge Cove.

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About an hour later the ship Micronesian Cheif anchored just off to the east of the prom
and is still there. Obviously for shelter but as there where many other ships passing through the gale, maybe they have a flat tyre or something?

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Yep a bit breezy down here off King island had 50s all day ,going back tomorrow accross the padock

expecting a rough trip back , ah well all in a day's work ,beats peak hour.

will try and take a few photos .

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spiggie said..
Yep a bit breezy down here off King island had 50s all day ,going back tomorrow accross the padock

expecting a rough trip back , ah well all in a day's work ,beats peak hour.

will try and take a few photos .

what sort of Boat you on spiggie ?

Holy crap Southace there's not much room left on those piers

Looks pretty intense down there Spiggle

Its all good on a 70 mtr ship Seahorse Standard anchored off king island about to leave and cross the paddock back to westernport.
Bit of a big swell running forecast 40 + knots in for a lumpy night.
Spend some of my week days on Seahorse Standard ,week ends yachting and when on leave helping out in deliveries .
Ah the Good life !!!!!