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Double island point!

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Created by southace > 9 months ago, 3 Apr 2017
southace
SA, 4776 posts
3 Apr 2017 7:04PM
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windy place in past 3 days 30 to 40 knots from the North! Anyone heading from Cairns to the north?

lydia
1796 posts
3 Apr 2017 5:44PM
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So you have that information what is the first thing you do?

southace
SA, 4776 posts
3 Apr 2017 7:57PM
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The information is from the new seabrease forum layout. Has been 100 knots over Debbie but now I'm intrested in 30 to 40 northerly blasting down cape York. I think I will go west next year the coral coast has been smashed!

southace
SA, 4776 posts
3 Apr 2017 7:57PM
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The information is from the new seabrease forum layout. Has been 100 knots over Debbie but now I'm intrested in 30 to 40 northerly blasting down cape York. I think I will go west next year the coral coast has been smashed! Will miss laura and lizard island!


lydia
1796 posts
3 Apr 2017 6:36PM
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Don't it strike you as very strange!

southace
SA, 4776 posts
3 Apr 2017 8:20PM
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What is strange? It's blowing 30 to 40 knots down the cape of far north qld. What a muck. I have been doing underwater photography and sailing for past 10 years on east coast and truth to be told I will wait a few more years now till I get back in the water on East coast. Such a shame!






southace
SA, 4776 posts
3 Apr 2017 8:29PM
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Actualy abc 24 is showing fresh southerly right up the far north east coast is th double island weather station giving a incorrect reading?

lydia
1796 posts
3 Apr 2017 7:24PM
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That would be my guess.
Big ridge, observations north and south all of the ridge.
Unless there is stationary low about 30 miles across, the observation is wrong.

sirgallivant
NSW, 1531 posts
4 Apr 2017 7:51AM
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Do not worry about nature, it will recover as it did for zillions of years if we humans let it do it's job!

PhoenixStar
QLD, 477 posts
4 Apr 2017 9:20AM
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Their wind direction has been crazy for a couple of days. I recon ther is a big ibis sitting on their wind vane.

southace
SA, 4776 posts
4 Apr 2017 12:50PM
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Now it's showing the lowest wind recorded in OZ

PhoenixStar
QLD, 477 posts
4 Apr 2017 2:08PM
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southace said..
Now it's showing the lowest wind recorded in OZ


The ibis just crapped on the paddle wheel.

lydia
1796 posts
5 Apr 2017 9:15AM
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I get negative tide but negative wind!
Double island point -1 knot

PhoenixStar
QLD, 477 posts
7 Apr 2017 9:16AM
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Looks like they got rid of the ibis.

drpete
55 posts
7 Apr 2017 11:23AM
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The Double Island wind station ALWAYS stooges me!
Sailing back from Lady Musgrave once in my cat, beating HARD into a 20 knot South Easter (as usual) on my way back to Mooloolaba, the DI station was reading 15 knots due Westerly AS I SAILED PAST IT! I WISH that it was 15 from the West, that's a dream come true, but sadly, no.
Petey

Bruski068
VIC, 457 posts
8 Apr 2017 6:57PM
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lydia said..
I get negative tide but negative wind!
Double island point -1 knot


does that mean the wind is sucking instead of blowing



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