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southace
southace
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9 May 2016 10:32am
It's been blowing 40 to 50 knots since sun rise Max gust 55knots Melbourne and Tassie your next!


HG02
HG02
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9 May 2016 2:37pm
it rained in tigers and wolfves just before bucket loads
suns out again now
keensailor
keensailor
NSW
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9 May 2016 4:57pm
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





keensailor
keensailor
NSW
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9 May 2016 5:14pm
arh, I just spotted the low of 981 just above the high.
madmission
madmission
VIC
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9 May 2016 5:15pm
May have fizzled out ?


FreeRadical
FreeRadical
WA
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9 May 2016 6:22pm
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.





SandS
SandS
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9 May 2016 8:49pm


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
southace
southace
SA
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9 May 2016 9:13pm
This is the highest the pontoons have been on the poles in 10 years. Max gust was 59 knots.
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Guitz
Guitz
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9 May 2016 9:45pm
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 :(
SandS
SandS
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9 May 2016 9:58pm
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 !!
Guitz
Guitz
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9 May 2016 11:37pm
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!
keensailor
keensailor
NSW
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10 May 2016 5:25am
@freeradical
There's some great info there, cheers.
It looks quite intense north west from the centre of that low.
HG02
HG02
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10 May 2016 6:03am
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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crustysailor
crustysailor
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10 May 2016 8:47am
you might need to crack out the whipper snipper Southace
Sectorsteve
Sectorsteve
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10 May 2016 9:16am
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;)
cisco
cisco
QLD
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10 May 2016 10:32am
crustysailor said..
you might need to crack out the whipper snipper Southace


Or an extra set of dock lines.
Guitz
Guitz
VIC
617 posts
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11 May 2016 8:57am
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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spiggie
spiggie
VIC
79 posts
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11 May 2016 9:42pm
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 .
SandS
SandS
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11 May 2016 10:31pm
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 ?
andy59
andy59
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12 May 2016 12:23am
Holy crap Southace there's not much room left on those piers
andy59
andy59
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12 May 2016 12:24am
Looks pretty intense down there Spiggle
spiggie
spiggie
VIC
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12 May 2016 1:22pm
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 !!!!!
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