Weird Weather

[JumbleDuck]

We're in Salen, Loch Sunart, tied up to a fishing boat's mooring. Wind is 25kt steady, gusting 30+ and it's still too warm to go out. My Day Skipper theory said that hot weather goes with high pressure and low winds ... can I get my money back?

 

[capnsensible]

Nah.

 

[[70521]]

My Day Skipper theory said that hot weather goes with high pressure and low winds ... can I get my money back?

You need to do your Yachtmaster.

As my Geography teacher used to say, 'Its all about isobars'.

 

[Graham376]

too warm to go out.

What do you call "too warm"? We've been getting 36 degrees below decks recently, that's warm!

 

[capnsensible]

Anyway, it will be honking with rain by saturday night, probably.

 

[JumbleDuck]

You need to do your Yachtmaster.

As my Geography teacher used to say, 'Its all about isobars'.

Isobars? I'd pay a fortune for a cornetto right now.

What do you call "too warm"? We've been getting 36 degrees below decks recently, that's warm!

That's warm. My crew has returned from a rowing trip, defeated by the heat for the first time ever.

Anyway, it will be honking with rain by saturday night, probably.

I'm in Scotland, so "honking with rain" is the default state and, indeed, expected all weekend.

 

[capnsensible]

 

[mjcoon]

Anyway, it will be honking with rain by saturday night, probably.

Wasn't the definition of a UK summer just "two fine days and a thunderstorm"?

Mike.

 

[capnsensible]

During many years at the Clyde Submarine Base the adage was 'if you cant see the hills, its raining and if you can see the hills its about to rain'.

 

[Joker]

Wierd weather? Earlier this year I was in thick fog coupled with thunder and lightning.

 

[Deleted member 36384]

We're in Salen, Loch Sunart, tied up to a fishing boat's mooring. Wind is 25kt steady, gusting 30+ and it's still too warm to go out. My Day Skipper theory said that hot weather goes with high pressure and low winds ... can I get my money back?

I think an anti RYA diatribe with the decline in instructor quality caused by fast track yachtmasters focusing only Olympic sailing. could be called for. However, not by me.

I remember a few years ago beating from Bute to Largs into an Easterly, The wind was very warm and about a F6/7. All very well until the spray from the first wave hit to remind us that Scotland is not Saint-Tropez. That was a weird wind, high pressure as well.

 

[LONG_KEELER]

Don't blame it on the bossa nova but El Neno . Definitely seems to influence many areas.

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The Great Puny El Niño of 2018*–19 continued through March, and forecasters predict it will likely remain through the summer and possibly continue into the fall. The tropical Pacific Ocean shows El Niño’s fingerprint clearly, with warmer-than-average sea surface temperatures stretching across the equator.

 

[Quandary]

Wind has been blasting up Loch Fyne all day, very bouncy for those heading back to the Clyde. The hills have heated up, the convection is sucking air from down the Clyde and Loch Fyne is just a fifty mile long funnel.

 

[JumbleDuck]

Wind has been blasting up Loch Fyne all day, very bouncy for those heading back to the Clyde. The hills have heated up, the convection is sucking air from down the Clyde and Loch Fyne is just a fifty mile long funnel.

Salen has just gone, over about 20 minutes, from F5 gusting F7 to F2 gusting F4. Much more civilised, and we were able to get onto the pontoon before the shop shut ... chocolate brownies!