And could we have a real time report from a mid north town, say, umm, Lancelin?
What would it take Seabreeze? Could it be done?
Having been in the region of that small town this arvo the Ocean Reef charts look about right but in the interests of pure science and kiting the actual data would be good for comparison.
Hope you all got out there today.....
There is a BoM site in Lancelin but unless it's changed recently it only uploads data twice a day, and any live readings reputing to be from Lancelin are normally from Gingin Airport, which is kind of useless. If you want a live reading from Lancelin, drive up, stand on the point with your arms up like jesus and decide between the 8 or 10m.
Basically you want Laurie to tell you whether to bother driving up this way or not? after the circus out there the last couple of days I'd say no, and if by 'in the region of that small town' you mean a little further up the coast any live weather feed from Lancelin would be pointless, there is often a +-5-10 knot difference between the two.
The weather station is on the rifle range, a little back from the coast and behind sand dunes. Coordinates are available on the BoM website. I think that is why it reads a little lower in a seabreeze. New graphs for Fish Rocks (off South Beach) and the RPYC annex are great.
Nah, there is a boM site in town, just near the jetty, thats the co-ordinates given by BoM. That anemometer sites on a 10 m tower wedged between a large shed and norfolk pine so it's never too accurate on wind readings.
The 256k radar recently started referencing to a Lancelin East site but I can't find a link to that anywhere else in the boM website, but then if it's Lancelin East it is probably referring to Nilgen or Karakin which are both far enough inland to also not give an accurate reading for seabreezes on the water.
And I got a red-thumb for my first post, somebody loves me 
Maybe I was a bit annoyed, not a big fan of seeing my kite skim 3 feet over the top of shag rock because some guy doesn't know he has right of way, but needs to keep his kite up so I can get by downwind of him. I tried to point it out to him at the time but all I got back was a thumbs up, a big smile and a 'wahooooo'. They say ignorance is bliss...
chris, dnd was refering to the swanborne one
well known it is behind a bit of a dune ridge, pretty sure OR is up quite high, so find a happy medium between the two, some common sense, and a window to check it from live 
I only pay attention to the ocean reef graph. Just take 5 knots off and it's pretty close for most Perth beaches.
I work by the beach At Ocean Reef and kite most days it's on at Scarbs/ Contacio.
Ocean Reef is 3-5 knots windier than Scarbs.
Could be due to the coast jutting out a bit up there???
