Hurricane in the Solent tomorrow

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Does anyone else have their doubts about OnlineWeather.com's sailing weather service?

I'm just glad I'm not anywhere near the Solent tomorrow - check out


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Interesting combination of possible force 12 and sea state 'slight'.
Not just Onlineweather.com. I left Lough Swilly recently when Malin Head Radio Coastguard was announcing a 'small craft warning' (force 7 plus). As we left smoke would have been rising vertically, and wind never got above force 3. Sure the met office do a good job, but they're still guessing or generalising some of the time. Just keep your eye on the barometer...

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Interesting - the Met Office forecast for Central Southern England (that's where the Solent is, ain't it?) is for gentle southerly winds tomorrow. If that's Force 12 I wonder what Force a Met Office gale is?

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Somehow me thinks that this forecast is wrong/forums/images/icons/laugh.gif

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I don't know what geostrophic scale they use at Online weather but every time I look at them they seem to be over-estimating the wind strength by a factor of about 3.

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Difficult to be precise, but sometime between 00:00 and 23:59. Hope you have nav lights on your lilo.

Regards
Tom

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