Re: pager reading at Coyote and 3rd

From: Ken Poulton (poulton@zonker.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis)
Date: Thu Jun 29 2000 - 00:36:15 PDT 

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From: Ken Poulton <poulton@zonker.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis>
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> This season there has been a consistent and large differential between
> the Coyote and 3rd Ave readings. Today Coyote was reading 21 when 3rd
> was at 13. This has occurred quite often this season, but I don't
> remember such large differences in past seasons.

4:00-5:00 PM readings (in knots) when coyote is > 15 knots:

                coyote 3rd coyote-3rd N
June 2000 17.53 12.63 4.895 38
June 1999 17.96 13.33 4.63 27
June 1998 data missing
June 1997 18.89 17.62 1.27 37

No real difference between this year and last.
June 97 was different; dunno why.

> The conventional
> wisdom is that Coyote is a better indication of the channel and the
> 3rd reading shows what's happening inside near the 3rd launch.

I still agree with this. The 3rd sensor showed 12-15 mph which is
swimming weather on my sinker. Coyote showed 21 mph from 3:00 to 5:00,
dropping to 18 by 6:00. This agrees exactly with my experience today in
the channel at 3rd: just enough on my 6.0 until 5:15, then slog time.
I think you just launched as it backed off.

Feel free to grab the data and play with it:
http://www.labs.agilent.com/Ken_Poulton/windsurf/archive/winddata/

Ken Poulton
poulton@labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis

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