Hi
I heard that the seabreeze does not happen on the abhrolos islands, is this true?
I'm interested to know how far out to sea does the seabreeze event occur in Perth?
Andrew
I'm not sure about the abrol's , but having sailed/ ocean raced off perth and clocked up numerous miles. the breaze kicks arse where ever the wind pattern fits. thus if you have close isobars over the abrol's then yo will get kick arse winds. like most of the coast, the mornings seem to be still with the pm blowing your 3.7m / 4.0m to shreds.
Frank Bethwaite used to fly seaplanes into Sydney airport. His book has an answer to pretty well everything. When he flew in from NZ he'd come in at low altitude and found the synoptic norwester would fade 30 km offshore and progressively become a noreaster as he approached Sydney. When flew wheeled aircraft later, approaching Sydney from the west, he'd be descending on a steeper glide path and found the norwester to noreaster transition to occur at and altitude of 250 metres.
Here's the book, taken by the little camera in my new mac. Doesn't do a good job of text? Why does it mix left to right but not top to bottom?
great answer, I CAN SLEEP NOW!
now I can also understand why the Abhrolos (60 km out) won't get the seabreeze as often as Gero (miss out entirely later in the season) and the colder water at the start of the season causes the stronger seabreezes in Perth.
Cheers
Thanks Nebbian, you're right, I'm outsmarted by a computer again. You can flip the photo once it as been taken using the edit facility in 'photobooth'.
no seabreeze at the abrols....
if the bars are close it nukes all morning, day n night....
ahhhh wind..... a distant memory