Received: from hpoclrf.sj.hp.com by opus.hpl.hp.com with SMTP (1.37.109.8/15.5+ECS 3.3+HPL1.1) id AA07654; Mon, 26 Sep 1994 10:21:06 -0700 Return-Path: <kirk@hpmsd3.sj.hp.com-DeleteThis> Received: by hpmsd3.sj.hp.com (1.37.109.8/15.5+IOS 3.22) id AA21522; Mon, 26 Sep 1994 10:23:08 -0700 Date: Mon, 26 Sep 1994 10:23:08 -0700 From: Kirk Lindstrom <kirk@hpmsd3.sj.hp.com-DeleteThis> Message-Id: <9409261723.AA21522@hpmsd3.sj.hp.com-DeleteThis> To: WindFinder@aol.com-DeleteThis, wind_talk@opus.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis Subject: Re: Windsight forecasts
> Now that weather service has moved from Redwood City to Monterey the quality
> of the forecast continues to erode. Part of the problem is that the morning
> Oakland RAOB (radio beacon) sounding ballon report is often missing from the
>
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thanks for the great info...
> There is an alternative. Windsight has two full time professional
meteorologists, who are also hard core windsurfers. All these guys do 7 days
> a week is forecast wind for sailors in the S.F. Bay, Gorge and Maui. Unlike
i was in The Gorge and had problems with the accuracy of even the onsite
windsight numbers....
Do you have statistics on how accurate you are? Can you predict what
time of the day it will start blowing say at Coyote or 3rd?
> forecasts in the Penninsula? Well the Windsight models are always improving
> as the data base gets larger. Right now they are very accurate when there is
> a NW or SW flow along the coast. If the pressure gradient is weak and there
> is not much of an ocean push the forecast is less reliable since very local
> thermal winds are hard to predict. This is when the on-site reports are
I have the same problem.
> invaluable. By next season Windsight should have a sensor which actually
> gives the real wind for the waters off Coyote and this will further improve
> the Penninsula forecasts.
>
This sounds useful...
Kirk out
ASD epoxy: 8'8" RKT, 8'11" CS & 9'6" no-nose CS; Mistral CFlex & Malibu
Wt 213#, Ht. 6'0", Usually sail on SF Bay, Cailf.
(kirk_lindstrom@sj.hp.com-DeleteThis)
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