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Forums > Kitesurfing Victoria

Where the wind at?!

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Created by KnutH > 9 months ago, 14 Feb 2024
KnutH
VIC, 427 posts
14 Feb 2024 11:39AM
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Been 4 months now, and I can barely recall more than a handful of days with 25+ kn winds for 4 hours straight without thunderstorm warnings or bat**** crazy rain fronts.
Has it been like that for the last couple years, or are we having an exceptionally poor season?

PaulVee
VIC, 126 posts
31 Mar 2024 3:04PM
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The typical seabreeze patterns in Melbourne have definitely changed. They used to be like clockwork, I've only managed a handful of kites too.

NorthernKitesAUS
QLD, 1079 posts
27 May 2024 10:41AM
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Ahh welcome to QLDer type winds Viccos! Haha.. now will you buy my big-ass foil kites!?

NorthernKitesAUS
QLD, 1079 posts
30 Aug 2024 6:20PM
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Heaps of wind out there and no one out?! Brighton Beach webcam showed quite good N NE at least 18kn and no one out.

KnutH
VIC, 427 posts
1 Sep 2024 6:14PM
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I was in Rosebud yesterday and Brighton today. Can't complain about this winter for sure, some super sweet Northerlies and even without cold fronts. Makes up for the summer a bit

Sandfoot
VIC, 569 posts
21 Sep 2024 10:36AM
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I moved here aroud 2005 and it was windy, many days on the bay were too windy to kite with 100 kmph winds occuring monthly or more.

I do remenber many locals saying the 90's were **** house with lots of rain and unrelaible winds, but the 2000's were epic due to a almost 10
year drought.

2010 to 2020 was a mixed bag but generally more good years, the wind seems to stop around 2022 ish and the last 3 years approx....have been unreliable.

What seems to effect the weather and in Victoria is La Nina / El nino which is the pacfic ocean tempretures, the La nina years tend to be cooler with more rain and ****ty winds while the El Nino hotter with more wind. The next big dry will bring the winds back again, who knows when but i would say around 2 to 3 years away as a complete slighlty educated guess. !!!

You really need to tavel to get wind in the bad years.

KnutH
VIC, 427 posts
29 Sep 2024 10:38AM
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Yeah back around 2020 it was the same deal with El Nino/La Nina. That's why I was so surprised about last summer with no winds despite El Nino.
Looks like that volcano eruption could have something to do with it:

www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-16/tongan-volcano-impact-australian-weather/101978886

Cheesehead
1 posts
29 Sep 2024 1:23PM
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Good day fellow wind addicts,

Wind & wave chaser here from the states. Couch surfing in Melbourne for 2 weeks and plotting a day mission to catch some swell. Ping a DM if anyone is interested this week. Maybe Flynn's or the ocean side of Mornington P? Appreciate any info.

Cheers

Boonty
NSW, 39 posts
13 Feb 2025 7:39PM
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Gabo Island I notice always has crazy strong winds. 46knts NE there today. Wind meter there must be dodgey.
Looks a bit rocky though.



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