Big Wednesday / Thursday looming on the horizon.

Stormtracking radar engaged and ready to track this deep atlantic low forecast to track east between Iceland and Scotland midweek @ 933mb at it most intense , dialing in a gale to stormforce wsw veering westerly flow.... impressive agreesive animal this one. Time for some battening down.

updates to follow as we draw closer to the day / days

Ok ....

Appoaching storm will lie between Iceland and Scotand Wednesday noon @ 950mb with a very unstable and strong flow on its southern flank covering most of the the UK.. The flow will be building late this afternoon as the system's cold front approaches veering to the westt on passing through WK late afternoon.

During early wednesday the wind looks to back a notch towards WSW  remaining there unitl dusk before veering to a true west. Wind strength typically F7-F9 with stronger gusts. (MetO Data).

XCWeather(GFSdata) showing the flow typically westerly for the most part.

WIndguru (GFSData) wind data has the wind angle in degrees, showing between 5-10 degrees off the true west 270 deg, thus in keeping with the MetO data.

In Summary. Tight flat and very windy for tomorrow, no doubt gusty too, temps feeling more like 2 degs in the wind not the 8 degs forecast.

High Tide is around 1300hrs and @ 8.8m expect a minor breach

Thursday's thoughts:

Strong to gale for the morning bang on true west, backing towards the wsw through the afternoon and easing off a notch by dusk.

Updates to follow

Ok ....its looking increasingly likely that F7-F9 flow tomorrow will not make it round to true west during daylight hours pretty much remaining on a WbS angle (midway between wsw and west)  which is quite tight on starboard ... nonetheless Flat and Windy the order of the day!

The flow may  hit true West during the evening with a chance of remaining F7-F9 through the overnight period and into Thursday morning from the West but still the chance of not veering to true West remains ever present. 

Disappointing strength in the flow today, forecast flow never really materialising. Nonetheless another chance tomorrow. The flow forecast to go west tonight and increase to 7-9 peaking around 3am slowly tailing off to 6-8 by early afternoon and backing back to wsw through the afternoon.

A dawn raid to get the best of it!  Hopefully the morning session good for F7-F8 with F9 gusts, the best of it  - dawn to mid morning.

Good to see the Kirb delivering on the 2nd day well done to all who sailed. Perhaps a repeat performance towards the end of next week as the zonal flow looks set to continue for a while longer. ...

Early signs now evident for a return to a westerly galeforce flow, probably building through Friday sustained through most of Saturday before easing off towards mid to late afternoon. 

Galeforce westerly flow forecast to peak during Friday evening through Friday night.

At present there is a reasonable chance of a westerly flow around galeforce for Friday afternoon lasting to Saturday noon