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Originally Posted by kiwiar2000
It seems that the west coast of Florida gets better winds than us. The bahamas are lucky to get plenty of good wind during the summer, and there just miles away from us!
BTW, What are thermal winds, and are they ever going to turn on @ Biscayne bay???
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I thought parts of the west coast might do better too. Still, after talking with them I am not so sure. However, the Tampa area appears to lead the State in storm activity in the summer based upon lightning frequency maps, so who knows?
There is a pretty good tutorial on seabreezes aka thermal winds at:
http://marine.rutgers.edu/cool/seabreeze/tutorial.html
Some stuff on predicting sea breezes appears at:
http://www.sailingworld.com/article....D=575&exclude=
oh, and if you just aren't getting enough lift with normal sea breezes, you can always try to predict and have a whirl with a waterspout! You might be able to hit cloud base and then some. If you are unconscious or dead, does the jump still count? More about predicting seabreezes AND waterspouts at:
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/mlb/spoutpre.html