Originally Posted by scooby_simon
Originally Posted by Jake
Originally Posted by catman
Funny thing about that low was yesterday right at 6:59 am I was positioned right in front of that low waiting to get the leading edge. At 7:00 am the winds were updated and I found myself at the back edge of it. The leading edge moved like 200 hundred miles in a minute.



Yeah, I noticed that too...I thought I was going to be able to hang in there for a while and it just jumped!


Remember the +12 forcast is exactly that; when the clock ticks over, you get the current wind picture for the next 12 hrs.


I had always assumed that it was a snapshot of the predicted wind 12 hours from the current situation.

As it relates to the low, I believe it's "wobbling" and it's hard to see it in 12 hour snapshots. The leading edge trough, while it jumped dramatically last night, has hardly moved this afternoon. I gybed back out to try and reengage with the leading edge.

Jake Kohl