Bob Blog

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 Sunday 24 Sep 2023

DAYLIGHT SAVING
The number of countries that mark daylight saving time is slowly decreasing,
but it is still observed in Australia and New Zealand.
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In Australia, saving is observed in New South Wales, Victoria, South
Australia, Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and Norfolk Island.
These places start next Sunday, 1 October, the first Sunday in October.
Daylight Saving Time continues in these places until the first Sunday in
April (3am Daylight time ->2am standard time), 7 April 2024.

TROPICS
Former cyclone LEE knocked out power over Canada's maritime provinces.
Ophelia made landfall over Northern Carolina.

WEATHER ZONES
The South Pacific Convergence zone is building over Solomon Islands to
Tuvalu to Tokelau , with an active trough/convergence zone from near
Suwarrow to over Tahiti. An MJO , or burst of tropical energy is expected to
move onto Coral Sea and Micronesia zone over next few weeks.

HIGHS and LOWS:

HIGH H1 Is intense and moving slowly along 35S well east of NZ. It has been
blocking the front over NZ, slowing the movement of its rain. around 400mm
of rain is expected for the Eastern ranges of North Island next two days.

LOW L1 is expected to form north of NZ by Monday in the trough on the back
of H! L1 is expected to travel south across eastern NZ next few days. Avoid.

Low L2 is expected to travel NE into the central Tasman Sea by mid-week and
then weaken crossing North Island on Thursday. Another Front from the SW is
expected to deepen into a low over central NZ this weekend. Avoid/

In tandem with L2 Highs H2 and H3 should form of the Australian coast on
Tuesday and Thursday then fade as they go NE. Another HIGH should follow the
weekend front and then settle near North Island next week.

Avoid arriving in Northland on Thursday and Saturday this coming week. Looks
OK anytime next week.

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