Sydney Harbour
www.seabreeze.com.au/gallery/gallery.asp?imageid=2099 went off this mornin !!
www.bom.gov.au/products/IDN60901/IDN60901.95766.shtml
Dats some serious boostin time, time it right and you def beat 'Erik'
Lucky it was early morning. Imagine kiting around when its 15-20 knots and seeing a 149 knot gust coming towards ya 
That would leave stains in anyones undies.
Although i'd say this is just a windmeter f**k up
Arrow Out
don,t worry about no kite. mah fingernails is tearin off da rock wall!
help help!
any eyewitness accounts?
Hi there,
I checked all the other weather stations recordings around the bay and not one recorded any gusts or wind increase above the normal!
280 km/h !!!! is the wind speed in a cyclone category 4 - 5 producing severe damages.
I don’t wand to disappoint anybody, but this looks like some trouble with the wind speed/wind direction sensor in the station.
Thinks like that happen sometimes, and the data reported in the BOM website is not "validated data" it is coming directly from the automatic weather stations.
Here is a coppy of the temperature recorded by the station during the gust:
Date /Time Temp
29/06:35am -
29/06:29am -
29/06:28am -
29/06:27am -
29/06:24am -
29/06:21am -
29/06:20am -
29/06:18am -1.5
29/06:17am -
29/06:15am 50.2
29/06:14am -1.4
29/06:00am 12.0
The fact that the temperature is not recorded during that time and towards the and of the period the temperature is recorded 50 deg!!! point to some problems with the data logged.
So, in conlusion, do not believe it was a gust like that!!
quote:
Originally posted by silviu
Hi there,
I checked all the other weather stations recordings around the bay and not one recorded any gusts or wind increase above the normal!
280 km/h !!!! is the wind speed in a cyclone category 4 - 5 producing severe damages.
I don’t wand to disappoint anybody, but this looks like some trouble with the wind speed/wind direction sensor in the station.
Thinks like that happen sometimes, and the data reported in the BOM website is not "validated data" it is coming directly from the automatic weather stations.
Here is a coppy of the temperature recorded by the station during the gust:
Date /Time Temp
29/06:35am -
29/06:29am -
29/06:28am -
29/06:27am -
29/06:24am -
29/06:21am -
29/06:20am -
29/06:18am -1.5
29/06:17am -
29/06:15am 50.2
29/06:14am -1.4
29/06:00am 12.0
The fact that the temperature is not recorded during that time and towards the and of the period the temperature is recorded 50 deg!!! point to some problems with the data logged.
So, in conlusion, do not believe it was a gust like that!!
Select to expand quoteOriginally posted by hugegonads
Very interesting name for a kitesurfer.
My question is: are they scarpping the sand, when walking on the beach, and bouncing on the water when you are kitesurfing?
That should be very, very painfull
That my explain your "brilliant" comments.
Hey, this is TROLLING
Doh
