How To Know The Wind Will Pick Up

[Will]

Here's the wind speed history for today:

8am 60 56 64 NW/13 30.02 10 SUNNY
9am 61 58 64 WNW/14 30.02 10 MOSTLY SUNNY
0920 61 58 63 NW/14 30.03 10 PARTLY SUNNY
10am 62 60 64 NW/14 30.04 10 PARTLY SUNNY
1009 63 60 63 NW/16 30.04 10 CLOUDY
11am 62 60 64 NW/15 30.05 10 CLOUDY
12pm 65 64 55 NW/14 30.05 10 CLOUDY
1pm 64 63 62 WNW/14 30.06 10 CLOUDY
2pm 66 65 58 NW/14 30.06 10 CLOUDY
3pm 65 63 60 NNW/14 30.06 10 CLOUDY
4pm 68 65 54 NW/17 30.05 10 PARTLY SUNNY
5pm 67 64 56 NW/21 30.06 10 MOSTLY SUNNY
6pm 68 65 52 NNW/16 30.08 10 PARTLY CLOUDY
7pm 67 64 56 NNW/12 30.09 10 MOSTLY CLOUDY
8pm 66 63 56 NNW/12 30.10 10 MOSTLY CLEAR

I was sailing from 10:00 to 3:00 on a 9.6 at Belaire waiting for the wind. In the future I'll let everyone know when I'm leaving the beach so they know it's time to rig up and get some good rides.

[Raymond]

You may find this regional site useful.

http://nddot.meridian-enviro.com/public/

Highlight and open "Forecast/Conditions Maps and Satellite Imagery"

Select the "Winds" map icon to get region wide current winds.
It's neat in that you can see the rotational patterns of highs and lows as well as their interaction and movement. Out here in nowhere land (no trees, no buildings, no geography, good wind) I generally assume that the weather is moving from the NW to the SE at approx. 30 mph and that as the sun pumps energy into the atmosphere the winds build during the day, so what I see about 90 to 100 miles WNW of my preferred sailing location at 11AM is a strong indication of what that site will be experiencing at 2PM (local geographic features not factored in)

or

Select the "anima" icon for an animated 6 visual of the trends

Enjoy,

[Tighe]

Great. I may add these to LAKAWA. I have to see how the graphics are updated.

thanks

[Raymond]

I believe the graphics/data are up dated hourly 24/7/365.