macd
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Apologies if this has been recommended before.
Anyone who's been in the Gulf of Corinth lately will know at least two things:
1. it's been bl**dy draughty;
2. almost no weather sites (gribs and national met offices included) seem to have had the slightest handle on predicting it.
After much mainly fruitless searching I found this site: http://forecast.uoa.gr/ICLAMS/index.php
("uoa" is University of Athens).
To use the site:
Select "high resolution forecast";
select area (Europe, Greece or Athens: the latter includes Saronic and Corinth gulfs);
select 'Sea surface wind' (the usual 10m wind graphics aren't so easy to read);
select time slot (or animate).
It predicted yesterday's conditions with uncanny accuracy: esssentially, a compact band of strong NE winds (we saw 37 knots apparent, running) arising in the Gulf of Andikirion, hurtling around Ak Makri Nicolaos, then curving along the main gulf before hitting Trizonia and points west. The modelling seems to allow for local macro effects, for which the Gulfs of Corinth/Patras seem otherwise poorly served. It also showed another wind hotspot in Kolpos Domvrainis, where we'd been battered a few days earlier. (Lovely area, by the way, and off the beaten path.)
I'd be much interested in Frank Singleton's thoughts on the site.
Anyone who's been in the Gulf of Corinth lately will know at least two things:
1. it's been bl**dy draughty;
2. almost no weather sites (gribs and national met offices included) seem to have had the slightest handle on predicting it.
After much mainly fruitless searching I found this site: http://forecast.uoa.gr/ICLAMS/index.php
("uoa" is University of Athens).
To use the site:
Select "high resolution forecast";
select area (Europe, Greece or Athens: the latter includes Saronic and Corinth gulfs);
select 'Sea surface wind' (the usual 10m wind graphics aren't so easy to read);
select time slot (or animate).
It predicted yesterday's conditions with uncanny accuracy: esssentially, a compact band of strong NE winds (we saw 37 knots apparent, running) arising in the Gulf of Andikirion, hurtling around Ak Makri Nicolaos, then curving along the main gulf before hitting Trizonia and points west. The modelling seems to allow for local macro effects, for which the Gulfs of Corinth/Patras seem otherwise poorly served. It also showed another wind hotspot in Kolpos Domvrainis, where we'd been battered a few days earlier. (Lovely area, by the way, and off the beaten path.)
I'd be much interested in Frank Singleton's thoughts on the site.
(which you've probably got used to telling you not very much during summer.) On gribs, the rainfall elment of the meteogram is in effect showing the risk of thunderstorms in a particular place, since the actual amount of rainfall forecast is an average over quite a wide area in which some places will miss out, others be clobbered.
