Thoughts for Sunday

Most of those wind forecasts truly should say "For entertainment purposes only".
The biggest problem is that the wind forecasts are for fairly large areas. Right off the bat you have a problem. As we all know, different patterns for wind exist in different areas within the forecast region. Souths tend to have a few areas where the wind is amplified. Northeasts the same thing, sea breezes the same thing.
Also, different times of the day can amplify the winds or diminish them differently depending on where you are. At EB, Souths almost always peak at 1-2pm. I don't even leave my house until noon anymore on a South.
Then it's almost always over (at EB) by 4:30. It's just how it is. There are rare exceptions, but that's a pretty strong pattern.

If I were you guys up North, I would start building on your observations for your area over a few seasons and learn to notice patterns. Once you do, you will be much more well equipped than even the best WxMan to make reasonable stabs at wind for a particular area. Those guys (Wx) do know what they are doing, but the areas they are asked to predict for in terms of wind pretty much screw them right off the bat. I bet if we had Steve Jarvey riding with us and he started to care about making micro-forecasts, he would nail the wind forecast for EB every time. .

[toby wilson]

Originally Posted by Skyway Scott

I bet if we had Steve Jarvey riding with us and he started to care about making micro-forecasts, he would nail the wind forecast for EB every time. .

Well we HAD Josh Linker but you had to go and goof on him and scare him away Scott!!! LOL!!!

Nah. I actually like him now. I even bet on his forecast for the last hurricane.

http://www.fksa.org/showthread.php?t...ghlight=linker

So where is everone going to go?
Scott you seem to have this down pretty well ... What do you think whats are best chances...?

[BigR]

hey , East Beach Is Always The Best Spot

hey its going to be pretty light...so i've got an old surfboard that i will bring.. but my kids broke off two of the 3 fins only the center left... not sure how it will ride.. guess we will see
south is onshore at eb right..?
also do u need booties at the tip...

[BigR]

south is onshore at eb right..?

sure is

also do u need booties at the tip...

not if you step lightly



I never ever use them

Originally Posted by <jason

hey its going to be pretty light...so i've got an old surfboard that i will bring.. but my kids broke off two of the 3 fins only the center left... not sure how it will ride.. guess we will see
south is onshore at eb right..?
also do u need booties at the tip...

It'll ride better.

Thrusters create a lot of drag if they have any toe in at all.

[Danimal8199]

East Beach was incredible today. warm sun, great wind, didn't even need a suit. Nice too see everyone enjoying the day, i counted about 38 kiters on the water at one time!

I never seemed to be crowded though, rock on!

[Whitey]

Counted 14 kties in the air at one point at 3 rooker today, with 3 or 4 on the beach, most I have ever seen there, it was a really nice group to ride with. I think the wind was closer to 20 from 2:00 till we left at 5:30 still cranking when we left, still showing 15.7 kts at fred howard as I post this. Had to go down to the 138 bitch witch to keep the 14 tracking with the depower pulled in to some degree for the last 3 hours.