Atlantic Crossing Weather
Oyster Moon
Paul Foskett & Rhu Nash
Thu 22 Dec 2011 19:33
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Blog Update!!!
Atlantic Crossing Weather
Most days we had fantastic sunshine during the day
and a very clear sky at night.
However especially towards the last few days of the
trip, we had squall after squall pass either close by, or directly
overhead.
These were are very interesting due to the fact
that the wind could change from the 8 to 12 knots and increase right up to 25 to
30 knots in less than 60 seconds, with a change of wind direction of almost 120
to 180 degrees.
It was easy to see these squalls during the day,
but at night they are not so easy to see. However with the use of RADAR you can
still pick them up at night.
Below are a few pictures of our chart plotter
screen with the radar images overlaid on the
screen. You can see large blobs on the
screen, these are the rain squalls.
I have put some pictures of the same squall so you
what they looked like compared to the images of the blobs on the radar / chart
plotter screen.
This shows 9 squalls when we still had 174 miles to
go and when we were doing 5.9 knots
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