weather forcasts

[powerskipper]

Don't you just love them,LOL

Forecast today for Solent was up to a 2 m wave, so you would expect a bit of sea height in Southampton water, and vis was about 2 miles or more.


So set off today expecting to get sea water wet, after all I was playing on a rib!!!!!!


NO.!!!!!!



instead got rain water damp to wet , sea was slight, but vis, well !!


less than quarter mile at times today in Southampton water, you could hear the fast cats before you could see them.

good day on the water never the less with shall I say interesting and good company, he mite identify him self later LOL.

So when have they got it wrong for you ???

 

[powerskipper]

wow

So no one has been caught out by the weather, must be just me!!!!!!


LOL

 

[splosh]

I was, Port Solent to Hamble and vis was about 1.5 cable. However, as you say but sea state slight. Stayed well out of the way of the fast cats.

 

[hlb]

Think one of the worst stuff I got caught out in, was going from Padstow to Milford Haven. Had no lap top, so used LJS as a weather forcster. Great for the first few miles. Then it got worse and worse. Got wetter and wetter. Needed a pee, and thought it can only make it warmer.


Had it another time as well, going the other way, started in an F4. Radio'd

the CG and said. This F4 lookes about ten foot high.


Yep, they says, we were just about to to give out a strong gale warning.

It chased us all the way up to Swansea 90 miles away..

 

[kcrane]

On Thurs/Fri of last week the MeteoGroup forecast (WeatherPro on an iPhone) for Soton was for a windy and wet day on Saturday, but a glorious day on Sunday.

So plans were made.

By Friday evening, they were saying Saturday wasn't so bad, but Sunday was now going to be cloud and rain. Darn.

Having learned that you just never know, we went to the boat anyway, and lo, what a beautiful Sunday at Swanwick. Mild & sunny, a bit of breeze, excellent. This time I was glad they got it completely wrong.

PS Julie: we did our pontoon bashing as promised, to the consternation of our neighbours, though we had to dodge quite big pieces of driftwood - is this common in the Hamble?

 

[powerskipper]

hamble

PS Julie: we did our pontoon bashing as promised, to the consternation of our neighbours, though we had to dodge quite big pieces of driftwood - is this common in the Hamble?



As a rule no, its th big tides we have had, but saying that I pulled a log a good 8ft long and 8 inch thick out the marina today. Only in last month or so , have I seen this kind of stuff around.

 

[benjenbav]

Never mind the driftwood on the river. It's the dead cows dislodged by the high tides that can really spoil your day!

On the weather forecasts, there was a day a few weeks ago when it was quite a bit colder overnight than mentioned. By the time I started out the ice on the marina side channels was kind of porridgey. Wierd manouevring in it. As soon as the power went off the boat just stuck where it was instead of continuing to turn like normal.

 

[adrianb]

Hey Julie !

"good day on the water never the less with shall I say interesting and good company, he mite identify him self later LOL."

I'd like to know what made it interesting!

Fantastic couple of days - Thursday and Friday - Vis did improve a little more later on Friday, my first solo passage !!!!!

Yarmouth on Saturday was a bit painful on the cheeks due to the rain, but yesterday made up for it 41kts !

Thanks Powerskipper!