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Sandringham Yacht Club wind gauge

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Created by ozbiker56 > 9 months ago, 12 Feb 2010
ozbiker56
VIC, 59 posts
12 Feb 2010 11:03AM
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http://www.syc.com.au/webcam2/weather/weather.htm

steveBayside
VIC, 169 posts
12 Feb 2010 11:48AM
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brilliant, i wonder if it will be combined into seabreeze readings or the www.earthsci.unimelb.edu.au/~awatkins/bay.html site, with a history as well as spot reading ?

For Bayside I've pretty much given up looking at Fawkner Beacon as so high and far out it doesnt seem to reflect ground level near the shore so ive been looking at St Kilda which i think is better, but then thats 8km up the coast.

lets see what is it right now? 20kts SW. first good bit in a week !

I'm off out!

kawindsurf
VIC, 137 posts
12 Feb 2010 12:51PM
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Awesome baby there going to be getting a live web cam you ripper son

windjunky
VIC, 401 posts
12 Feb 2010 1:18PM
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I've added the link to the Fawkner Beacon baywinds page... Tend not to graph up non-BoM sites as they have quite varying levels of quality, and sometimes unreliable data feed. Lets see how this one goes for a while... (hopefully it will be great!)

There was a webcam at the old SYC, but it was often difficult to make out conditions. I suspect with the new clubhouse etc they may well put in a new cam.

mathew
QLD, 2142 posts
12 Feb 2010 2:03PM
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windjunky said...
Tend not to graph up non-BoM sites as they have quite varying levels of quality, and sometimes unreliable data feed. Lets see how this one goes for a while... (hopefully it will be great!)


How would it be any different to the data for Fawkner Beacon...!!!

windjunky
VIC, 401 posts
12 Feb 2010 3:50PM
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mathew said...

windjunky said...
Tend not to graph up non-BoM sites as they have quite varying levels of quality, and sometimes unreliable data feed. Lets see how this one goes for a while... (hopefully it will be great!)


How would it be any different to the data for Fawkner Beacon...!!!


You being serious?? (I suspect not - but i'll blabber on anyway!) The Bureau does invest a lot of time and money and personnel in making sure that their obs are as accurate and consistent (from one sensor to the next) as possible; theres a whole science to measuring the wind. Fawkner Beacon is an extreme environment; exposure to high levels of salt and bird poo and extreme winds (and even being run over by a ship, as happened once) make it a very hard site to maintain. But maintain it they do to a very high level... Credit where credit's due i say.

MikeyS
VIC, 1509 posts
12 Feb 2010 4:44PM
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AB, where are the wind and rain obs for Melbourne taken from? Is it from the weather station just near the intersection of Latrobe and Victoria Streets?

windjunky
VIC, 401 posts
12 Feb 2010 5:29PM
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MikeyS said...

AB, where are the wind and rain obs for Melbourne taken from? Is it from the weather station just near the intersection of Latrobe and Victoria Streets?


Rain obs yes... wind observations are no longer taken from there as its not representative of the city in general. I think when you now see wind numbers quoted for melbourne they are often actually Melb airport.

www.google.com.au:443/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode&q=Victoria+St,+Melbourne+Victoria+3000&sll=-30.334954,155.368652&sspn=13.444276,17.797852&gl=au&ie=UTF8&hq&hnear=Victoria+St,+Melbourne+Victoria+3000&ll=-37.807673,144.969444&spn=0.001505,0.002173&z=19

MikeyS
VIC, 1509 posts
12 Feb 2010 5:38PM
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I'm glad to hear that. I would have thought the apartment block they built across the road might have had quite an influence otherwise.

steveBayside
VIC, 169 posts
12 Feb 2010 9:35PM
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personally I've setup my own webpage on my own PC that just references the relevant images so it looks like this:




just cut & paste this bold text below into text file, change its extension to ".htm" and then point a browser favourite at its location

Theres a 10 min wind AVE in there too that I added which is not on their site!


<h1>Sandy Yacht Club</h1>
<img src="">
<img src="">
<img src="">
<img src="">

ozbiker56
VIC, 59 posts
12 Feb 2010 10:07PM
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Thanks steveBayside.... that works nicely. I have it on my toolbar now.

steveBayside
VIC, 169 posts
16 Feb 2010 3:56PM
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i decided to take this a stage further and incorporate all my favoured "wind indicators" into a single page (obviously for Bayside) including Sandy, Fawkner & St Kilda real time and Elwood webcam - and look there's someone sailing out there now!
(make sure your browser is set to always refresh images)
Anything I've missed off? except Wilsons Windwatch, which is harder to reference as they are timestamped



<h1>Sandy Yacht Club</h1>
<img src="">
<img src="">
<img src="">
<img src="">
<br/>
<img src="">
<img src="">
<br/>
<img src="">
<br/>
<img src="http://elwoodsc.dyndns.org/images1full">

ginger pom
VIC, 1746 posts
16 Feb 2010 6:21PM
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steveBayside said...



i decided to take this a stage further and incorporate all my favoured "wind indicators" into a single page (obviously for Bayside) including Sandy, Fawkner & St Kilda real time and Elwood webcam - and look there's someone sailing out there now!
(make sure your browser is set to always refresh images)
Anything I've missed off? except Wilsons Windwatch, which is harder to reference as they are timestamped



<h1>Sandy Yacht Club</h1>
<img src="">
<img src="">
<img src="">
<img src="">
<br/>
<img src="">
<img src="">
<br/>
<img src="">
<br/>
<img src="http://elwoodsc.dyndns.org/images1full">


that's awesome. I can avoid all the pesky advertising that seabreeze puts around the info.

This thread has a limited lifespan now...

windrv
VIC, 29 posts
16 Feb 2010 7:34PM
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thanks mate very usefull
would it be possible to include these two graphs as well ?

earthsci.unimelb.edu.au/engage/dynamic-earth-updates/bay-winds
www.earthsci.unimelb.edu.au/~awatkins/forc.html

steveBayside
VIC, 169 posts
17 Feb 2010 10:43AM
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here we go. As I said above its hard to Ref Wilson Windwatch images directly as their names include a timestamp so theyre always changing.
Instead I've added these 2 pages into frames at the bottom.
Any other image or frame to a webpage you want to add just copy & change the relevant tags below, its not rocket science


<html>

<img src="">
<img src="">
<img src="">
<img src="">
<br/>
<img src="">
<img src="">
<br/>
<img src="">
<br/>
<img src="http://elwoodsc.dyndns.org/images1full">
<p>

<IFRAME src="www.earthsci.unimelb.edu.au/~awatkins/bay.html" width=800 height=800>
<br>
<IFRAME src="www.earthsci.unimelb.edu.au/~awatkins/forc.html" width=800 height=800>

</html>

kawindsurf
VIC, 137 posts
21 Feb 2010 12:17AM
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Looks like steveBayside was the first guy to spot a windsurfer on the cam and take the dudes pic from his computer

steveBayside
VIC, 169 posts
23 Feb 2010 6:28PM
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often I'll see windsurfers on the Elwood sailing club cam in late afternoon.
If you refresh the page it can come back again in 1-2 secs and you get a jerky flickbook film of whats happening, see if theyre planing etc



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