Does anyone know why MHL have stopped showing the infographic from their wave rider buoys?
This is what it looked like.
It contains more information about the surf than 10 minutes of surf cam footage.
Was I the only one using it?
Yeh mate i used it cause it was good to see the pulses from the other directions.
i agree if it ain't broke why duck with it
Not happy Jan
Select to expand quotebeachandbush said..
Yeh mate i used it cause it was good to see the pulses from the other directions.
i agree if it ain't broke why duck with it
Not happy Jan
I have emailed them previously when they went off-air for days/weeks.
I was told they had a struggle with the data.
Some time ago they changed the data from live to one hour old to clean up something, I know not what.
But to remove the directional spectra completely is very sad.
The nearshore data need to hold the zoom setting for it to be anything other than annoying.
The combination of swell appears lacking in the data and can mean the difference between a nice "ground" swell and waves that are a bunch of junk.
A few weeks ago I was checking MHL, Coastalwatch, Swellnet and Windy.com. They were all different. Some a little and some a lot.
eg CW ... NE swell. MHL ... SE swell. Too confusing. And now they have "improved" the MHL it will be less logical to the every Joe. Until we get used to it at least. Best bet is look at the ocean.
Yeh it's understandable.
The data is there but to interpret it to your local is what I have painstakingly studied.
Anyway I'm not retired but my local is a 10min drive and it's slways better in an incoming tide at first light on a Saturday.
See ya in the surf.
Select to expand quotebigmc said..
Looks like it is back.
Yeh!Here it is:
www.mhl.nsw.gov.au/data/realtime/wave/Buoy-syddow
Here is my explanation to round off this topic:
Reading the graphic:
Good ground swells (long period swells) have strong colour away from the middle, chop is energy towards the middle (short period).
The colour shows the amount of energy at that combination of direction and period.
A short stripy curve of the same period energy is preferable to a big blotch over a range of periods and directions.
I thought I should celebrate the current swell with this graphic:
Big (the red bits), but a bit messy (the green bits)
