Searching the window at clouds rolling in pushing bands of rain it’s apparent Autumn has arrived.
While the meteorlogical summer season formally ended on August thirty first, in recent times we’ve gotten used to a late ‘Indian summer season’ blasting a flurry of warmth over the UK by way of September, holding off Autumn just a few additional weeks.
However 2021 hasn’t precisely been one to observe the norm. Formally the calmest summer season on file, Magic seaweed recorded simply 1 vital day of swell and wind guru recorded low in days over 20 knots. In order many individuals who’ve hung out with us on the seaside, on the cellphone or by e mail know – it’s been a shocker for kiting.
Right here we’re excited for the change of season and the hope we’re served up a ‘conventional British Autumn’ – moist, windy and changeable, our favorite.
For us it’s the time of 12 months we watch for, when the water is heat from summer season and the storms begin rolling in from the west bringing a stream of power we are able to harness and trip.
It occurs as a result of the climate behaves in a different way after summer season; for the final 6 months the growing warmth of the solar has pushed the formation of huge secure excessive stress programs which take cost. Their broad secure footprint of sunshine falling air brings clear skies and light-weight easterly wind circulate which lazily sits down because it makes landfall on the UK and mainland Europe following it’s journey from the Atlantic to the west.
Dumping its warmth on land we benefit from the ‘warmth waves’ they create, however as kiters, endure from their summer season energy as low stress programs – filled with power wrestle to discover a path by way of.
With the solar’s energy now easing by way of autumn and winter the tables are about to show.
The Atlantic soaked up this power by way of summer season and now milder than the air above it begins giving it again. Enhancing the formation of robust energised low stress programs which flow into clockwise and drive moist air inwards and upwards. These smaller, tighter, excited programs bounce off one another as they’re pushed westward by the jetstream and Coriolis impact.
Charged with power they create westerly wind and we’re excited to see the indicators they’re about to get extra constant.
Identified within the States and Caribbean as hurricane season as their programs flow into tighter and tougher, they brace for impression and take the brunt of this alteration by way of ‘Fall’. For us we see it as an indication that the windy season is coming, the formation of serious low stress programs has began and as they monitor again to the west we prepared ourselves with small package and loads of Weetabix.
With Hurricane Olaf making landfall yesterday and a handful of low pressures spinning notabley throughout the Ocean we’re prepared and excited for it to be on.
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We now have no plans to shut for winter, the water is delicate till November so we’ll be open from early till late, have a completely stocked net store and can quickly be launching our Weekend Warriors marketing campaign – an opportunity to get on the water with native riders, head out for downwinders and luxuriate in one of the best of the season alongside Chris who’ll be working issues.
