Not so stressy and decidedly cheerful young fart

[ChrisE]

Have you seen the 5-7 day forecast?

Looks a bit warm to me. Ho-hum, holiday starts on Friday, minor whoopee in order methinks.

 

[jimi]

Cushion's in the post

 

[ChrisE]

Regardless of what I've heard from everybody else, you are a very kind person.

 

[landaftaf]

you should wait until you actually get the cushions .........

 

[jimi]

Old farts make whoopee

.. and then sit on it ....

 

[R32Stbrigid]

Hi Chris. Holiday also starts on Friday, Rival 32 "St Brigid" off to Holland for three weeks. Which forecast do you look at (Which lies the least?)

Cheers

Andrew

 

[jamesjermain]

Hi! Andrew,

Have a good holiday and regards to St Brigid. I've just returned from a brief excusion on the Oosterschelde - very pretty

 

[R32Stbrigid]

Thanks James. We love everything about Holland except the ****** mosquitos!

 

[Evadne]

Not so stressy and decidedly cheerful oldish fart

My holiday starts on Sunday (well the sailing bit does anyway). Looks like the wind stops blowing on Monday, it could take us all week just to get to Weymouth. At least SWMBO won't be seasick...

 

[awyatybw]

Off to Brittany on Sunday, probably through the Chanel du Four. Yesterday looked at UK Met Office (a.k.a Bracknell, even though they are now in Exeter), ECMWF and US met service forecasts for the relevant period. Completely different story from each of them!

Also have compared US forecast for the same time in the future (E of The Lizard, Sun 06Z) as issued at different times:
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From the latest charts, I can expect anything from a lovely, sunny F3-4 beam-broad reach, or light and variable, much of it on the nose, with rain.

 

[ChrisE]

Andrew,

Well, the one I used was the ECMWF one which didn't show too many isobars across Europe and the BBC website for the bits of Norway where we're going to.

Best of luck in Holland

Chris

 

[Yardarm]

The forecast for next Monday, which is when we start 2 weeks sailing in Turkey

Clear. High: 84° F / 29° C Wind West 15 mph / 25 km/h

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[dralex]

The forecast I always use for Turkey is always F0-1in the morning, rising to NW4-5 in the late afternoon. Where are you going?

 

[Evadne]

The met office synoptic charts I saw show a low crossing southern UK on Sunday. I'm not worrying yet, its a long way off and as likely to change for the better as it is for the worse at this stage.
( BBC synoptic charts
Both weatheronline and xcweather show F5 in the channel for Sunday as well, but they tend to follow the met office predictions. I think I'll wait until Theyr can tell me what it thinks.

 

[Yardarm]

It wasn't like that last year - the mistral never stopped, sometimes gusting F8 in the afternoons. Made for some stressy cruising! Our Oceanis 36 didn't like beating into that very much.

We're starting off in a little place called Orhaniye or Keci Buku and making our way to Gocek on a one way cruise. Should have the wind behind us the whole way. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif