Seen the forecast around Iceland?!

[stav]

Anything for a change of subject..........

Have a look at the synoptic chart around Iceland and the high seas forecast, talk f12 and hurricane strength winds! OMG.

 

[Concerto]

That is certainly a deep low and snow is included in the NW area. Not a time to be at sea I think.

 

[Graham376]

That is certainly a deep low and snow is included in the NW area. Not a time to be at sea I think.

That's not good, I don't think I would like Icelandic weather. Some years ago, we ducked into Dungarvan to avoid a forecast F7-8 and rafted up alongside an Icelandic flagged Victoria 34. Friendly skipper and family and when we said why we were there, he tried to wind us up by calling us pussies for avoiding such mild weather. When I retorted that he must be as mad as he looked, he told us in all seriousness that if he didn't sail in 8s and 9s, he wouldn't get much sailing in, on some of his weeks off. Turned out he worked (IIRC an engineer) on a fish factory ship in northern waters with quite long breaks ashore.

 

[Daydream believer]

Not a time to be at sea I think.

Funny enough - that is what the govt keep telling us

 

[Stemar]

And, in sunny Southampton, by barometer says 1024, it's sunny, but I'd be motoring to get anywhere.

 

[CLB]

That is some tightly packed isobars ?

 

[doug748]

That is some tightly packed isobars ?

As one sailing confederate used to say: "tighter than a Jack Russel's arse hole". In times of stress, an 'effin "Fig biscuit"

 

[capnsensible]

World Wide Weather continues.

Tropical Storm Harold has been giving Vanuatu a pasting. Heading towards Fiji. Gonna be a killer, Im afraid.

Vanuatu Reeling from Category 5 Harold, Now Steaming Toward Fiji

 

[richardbrennan]

I used to fly into Iceland. The airport has a runway every 30 degrees or so to cope with the winds.

 

[Kukri]

I’m sure I remember, many years ago, a Shipping Forecast which included: “Southeast Iceland: Cyclonic, Force Twelve, Severe Icing.’’

 

[Stemar]

That's the kind of forecast that gives the lie to the old saying that a bad day at sea is better than a good day at the office. But chances are there were fishing boats out in it!

 

[stav]

Guess the wind we sail in is kind of relative to our experiences! Poor Fiji (coronavirus? And a hurricane). And now we have a distinct lack of isobars.

 

[capnsensible]

I’m sure I remember, many years ago, a Shipping Forecast which included: “Southeast Iceland: Cyclonic, Force Twelve, Severe Icing.’’

I used to use navtext sailing up and down from Gib to the Canaries. There were often warnings of plagues of locusts from the Spanish Met office........

 

[zoidberg]

There were often warnings of plagues of locusts from the Spanish Met office........

is that where they hang out between seasons....?