At least your forecast says crap and is crap.
We get our hopes up and on the day get bugger all.
Bastards!!!!!!
Arrows? What luxury!!! This is all we get.
Dir Speed Gust Speed Gust °C °C °C % °C km/h knots hPa hPa mm
13/05:00pm 23.6 21.9 12.3 49 6.6 NW 13 20 7 11 1016.8 - 0.0
13/04:30pm 24.9 22.3 11.9 44 7.6 NW 17 24 9 13 1016.9 - 0.0
13/04:00pm 23.4 21.4 13.9 55 5.7 N 17 24 9 13 1017.1 - 0.0
13/03:30pm 23.7 21.3 13.7 53 6.0 NNW 19 28 10 15 1017.6 - 0.0
13/03:00pm 23.1 19.9 11.9 49 6.5 NNW 20 28 11 15 1017.7 1015.9 0.0
13/02:30pm 23.8 20.9 13.0 50 6.4 N 20 41 11 22 1018.1 - 0.0
13/02:00pm 23.5 21.2 14.0 55 5.7 N 19 28 10 15 1018.8 - 0.0
C'mon, Laurie, how about putting the National Capital in the picture. 
Yeah, reading the wind in the capital is 3/4 dark arts and 1/4 desperation. There are only two directions-
NW which is always gusty, as in waving between no-where-near-planing and almost-acceptable.
E where you hold out for a swing late in the day and if you're lucky you might get an hour or two reliable planing wind. If not so lucky, there'll always be someone else there who has come "on a promise" to lament with.
The first is easy enough to pick from the BOM forecast, but the later requires specific local knowledge and an arcane understanding of patterns taking in far more variables than I have been able to fathom. It's a sort of tea-leaves reading I think.
