I was out kiting in about 20knt ne wind at about 5pm this arvo on the lake at the enterance,central coast, when over about 5mins the wind died to approx 5-8knts. I couldnt keep my kite up, but thought the wind will come back soon. It didn't
I swam in about 500m and then walked back to my launch area. This took about 45mins and when I got back still no wind. There was no change in the weather and when I got home I looked at the graph and was amazed to find nothing out of the ordinary. I should note that I have kited here quite a few times before and the location is ok in every wind direction from east to north
Here is norah head graph from this arvo. Its located about 10kms up the coast from where I was
Can any of you people with a better understanding of what makes the wind work explain what happened to the wind today?
Hi Bennie,
My thoughts are the temperatures today were very extreme close to 30 degrees on the coast. - A Seabreeze can be very fickle in these temperatures. My bet is that the Norah Head Weather station is about more east than the the Lake Entrance. Due to the extra hot day, there was too much hot air to rise high enough to allow the seabreeze to enter into the low pressure area. The same thing happened in Wollongong today. No wind in Wollongong, but blowing 25knots + in Gerroa and Sydney, drove north and plenty of wind, got back to the house and dead still. - Go Figure. - Norah Head is on a bit of a peninsula, so presume it was still picking up the seabreeze. By the sounds of it the seabreeze was still there further south, but propably a bit further to sea.
Hope this explains it a bit
KR
Same thing happened to me down Sydney about 7pm, I ended up milking a long down winder to save the swim.then packed up and walked back. not happy.
It was fine at Nth Eny till 7ish when it went a bit north. Still plenty of wind out the back.
i had the same thoughts when i got home from kiting in newcastle, nobys head, i was way under powered & others were lit ????? plus alot of chop on the water,
cheers
daz
....oh right....you were talking about Fawkner beacon.
i didn't even notice it tbh, too early in the morning perhaps.
ill get my coat
