Wind can be strange
 

Skemp and I were out at Picnic today and saw the craziest thing. Near shore the wind was and stayed 9-13knts the whole time. I was ready to leave when skemp decided to ride a mile or two out in the bay. About a mile out the wind was 18-22knts. This was the areas that was more wind shadowed by St pete. It looks like the front just stayed 1 mile to the west the whole time. Anyway, it was interesting how wind can work.

Weird. I have heard of some really weird stuff on some lakes where it is nothing near shore, then you go out a ways and it's nuking.

Happens up at our local spot in Canada all the time. One time last summer I was the first one out and got out about 100 yards from shore and wind was great. Couldn't figure out why everyone else was on the beach. Jumping and powered on my 16m. Turned out no one else could get off the beach. Hardly any wind 25 yards from shore!

What causes that? Any idea?
Does the wind just go up real high when it encounters the heat of the land, like a wedge? I assume the lake water was cold.

About those lakes,
Noaa's forcast for our great Lake Okeechobee was looking pretty windy and the lake has got miles of fetch. i couldnt help but wonder what if....

.....what if the alligators came out to play?




I couldn't resist :)

Philthy, WHY would you want to drive down there just to get eaten by a marsh dinosaur! :)
Stay here with your buds.

Raul, i forgot to mention stingrays, Bathtube Reef has many stringrays, ive worked the odds of being simultaniously eaten by a bullshark whilst being stabbed repeatedly by a stringrays tail and it is far more likely to happen than being eaten by Alligators in the Okee......BathTub reef is NO JOKE scott.........:)

Exactly. We call it "dome-ing" (Sp?). In our location on Lake Ontario (one of the great lakes) the water is much cooler than the land in the spring and early summer.

Interesting thing is the day that it happened, the dome-ing effect shouldn't have happened. Water temps and air temps were similar.

It's also not uncommon for us to see a windline on the water. Many times when we are stuck on the beach, we can see the sailboats out a mile or two in great wind.

Ah. I think we get a similar, but smaller, effect here for our local winds when out of the east.
The closer we get to land (SW), the less wind there is during the day.
The further out in the channel, the more wind.
I have noticed this for quite some time.
As the land cools off, the winds "fill in" near shore. I think they are really just sinking from the doming effect losing strength as the day cools.
The winds can pick up REAL fast as the land cools. We see it out in the channel before we get it on shore.

Thanks for the info.
Do you guys have the winds fill in as the land cools, too?