This is a tad frustrating; trying to figure out if it is sensible to go to sea in the expected wind conditions. I suppose, on the plus side, i have generally been content with decisions i have made to stay tied up as the day's weather developed. However, i reckon the chances of circumnavigating via Caledonian canal are thinning.
The met office's inshore waters forecast, which I intended to rely on, has a couple of drawbacks, it's for a 24hr period and covers a long stretch of coast so is not really finely detailed enough and it predicts average wind speed rather than separating out into wind speed and gust speed. It shows the coast as red when force 6 is mentioned. It is red most of the time! Windguru is good for gust prediction and is more finely divided into three hourly slots so I'm tending to rely on that more.
At the mo', 9.30am, there's shrieking gusts still coming in, it might calm down a bit at lunchtime and then pick up again. I ought to get myself out there just to see how I manage in the force 6 gusts but that's a phaphph, i 'd definitely do it if there were a safety boat.
Tomorrow's forecast is the other extreme of exceedingly light winds so i'll deffo leave for the twelve NM to Amble, which will probably take all day. Needless to say i am itching to move.
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