WEATHER
YOTREPS
Compiled Sun 10 May 2020
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.
The Tropics
The latest cyclone activity report is at tropic.ssec.wisc.edu and Tropical Cyclone Potential is from www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/TCFP/index.html
There are no cyclones around at present , and none are expected this week.
WEATHER ZONES
SPCZ=South Pacific Convergence zone.
The SPCZ is slowly recovering after being drawn off to the east last week. It stretches from Solomon islands to N Vanuatu to Fiji to south of Tonga.
A LOW south of Fiji tonight is travelling SE next few days then south along 170W for several days. On Friday it’ll likely be 996 hPa.
Subtropical ridge (STR)
HIGH 103hPa east of southern NZ tonight is moving off to the east. Likely to be a squash zone on its northern side.
New HIGH moving into central Tasman Sea on Friday and across central NZ for the weekend 1028 hPa
Tasman Sea /NZ/Aus
Passing trough over South Island on Monday and North island on Tuesday/Wednesday, then light to moderate SW to SE flow for the remainder of the week.
From Panama:
Light wind in Panama but the SW winds are expected from 7N to 3N then S to SE winds North of Galapagos. ITCZ is coming and going over Panama.
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