rhys wrote:
On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 23:34:46 -0400, prodigal1 wrote:


rhys wrote:


The head is warm and the beer is very cold if you tow it through the
cubes...

there you go! I'm just not getting out enough

Where can I find historical stats for wind direction year-to-year?

Let me see what I can dig up.
Cheers


Looking forward to it. We launched our club yesterday into a bitter
drizzle with 15 knots coming out of...yes...the chilly, dank
north-east...

R.

You must have a serious sailing jones there Rhys. ;-) You've got a
heater below yes? Anyway, have you noticed the weather charts recently?
This is a continuation of the pattern I've been noticing over the last
few years i.e., the continuous, rapid re-spawning of low pressure
systems over the midwest which stall over the Great Lakes and produce
protracted periods of E quadrant wind/weather. Of course some seasoned
sailors might say that this is the normal course of weather but the last
two spring/summer periods have been anomalous in my 35 years of
observing/sailing on the Great Lakes. Currently we can see the remains
of an absolutely huge low over James Bay that has been joined by two
other new large lows NE of the Lakes. Weird is all I can say.
As far as wind data is concerned, there is frankly too much of it to be
summarized here. Check out these links or do a search such as
wind +data +archives at google.ca
Some of the data sources are proprietary and need payment for access.

http://rredc.nrel.gov/wind/pubs/atlas/

http://www.climat.meteo.ec.gc.ca/Welcome_e.html

Good sailing!