Ahh ok! Yeah that is a bit different. Were you working in a gap between buildings by chance? Cause buildings / structures can do some very significant enhancement to winds sometimes.
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I'll look tonight to see if there was a satellite wind pass over the area on Sunday... SOMETIMES, it picks up on weird local effects. I will say that, unless it's happening over a large area, it will be difficult for us to put it in the forecast unless it's dangerously strong (i.e. Wreckhouse).
However! lol what are the chances you can get the Mill to put a weather station down there and make the data public... That would help us diagnose it and maybe forecast it. Kinda gotta prove it's a widespread thing though. Otherwise it just becomes a "yeah that place is just always windier".
I am always watching the various forecasts and have been moving ships around the bay for 11 years. The winter frontal wind forecasts are good but the summer bay breeze rarely conforms to what you would expect based on available model guidance
figures that on the day in question the satellite winds just missed the area. I can't easily go back and check either, it's just after the models are dropped from our system.
All good. It’s not something most people are concerned about. It’s just one of many unique quirks of NLwx. I’ve chatted with Rodney in the past about how the southerly winds split on the south coast and go SE west of Francois and SW E of there due to the upslope terrain north of the coast.
Yeah our forecasts aren't really designed to pick up all the local effects very well. Although it would be a lot of fun to study them if we had those resources.
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