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Bob McDavitt's ideas for sailing around the South Pacific. Disclaimer: Weather is a mix of pattern and chaos; these ideas are from the patterned world. Compiled 09 August 2026 Cauldron boil .. Sea surface temperatures as El Nino warms the Pacific.. Cauldron bubble ---- Cyclones spin around each other .. As seen at cyclocane .com The Northwest Pacific is having a busy time with 3 cyclones circling each other at present. An incoming positive phase of MJO is expected to bring extra bubbly clouds (blue) to the NW Pac over the next few weeks TROPICS . Former Category-5 Typhoon DOLPHIN passed directly over remote and uninhabited North Iwo Jima, the first time an eye of a typhoon was ever observed making landfall there. The storm later raked Okinawa and other southern Japanese islands, and was taking aim at China's Zhejiang coast. . CHAN-HOM is heading westwards for Japan but spinning to the left under influence of DOLPHIN . Slowly moving Tropical Storm KUJIRA drenched the northern Philippines and is now travelling to northeast, but spinning to the left under influence of CHAN-HOM. WEATHER ZONES SPCZ is north of normal. Low L1 near Kermadecs on Monday is expected to travel northeast along with Highs to north and south of it. This is expected to produce an enhancement in the trade winds over Austral and Cook Islands for a few days.... a squash zone. Wait for it to ease off before Island hopping. Low L2 is has brought ample rain recently to SE Australia, followed by cold southerlies, and is crossing Tasmania tonight. It is expected to unravel in the Tasman Sea and associated front should cross NZ on Wednesday/Thursday--- This trough is expected to stall near Northland this weekend. Take care. HIGH H3 approaching Perth by Wednesday is expected to travel ESE along Aussie coast and reach Tasmania by end of the week. Tropical Low L3 may form off east end of Solomon Islands by this weekend and travel slowly south producing a squash zone of wind and rain over Vanuatu by weekend and maybe over Fiji next week (they can do with some rain). >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> If you would like more details about your voyage, check metbob.com Or Facebook at /www.facebook.com/metbobnz/ Weathergram with graphics is at metbob.wordpress.com (subscribe/unsubscribe at bottom). Weathergram archive (with translator) is at weathergram.blogspot.co.nz. Contact is bob@metbob.com or text 64277762212. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>