Enjoying the Sunshine
Lazing on the beach with views like this – What better way to spend the day?
Category: Weather
Windsurf Session and a Trip to Casualty
I was supposed to be mountain-biking at Afan today, the place where last year we went and ended up calling the air ambulance for Jon and I spent most of the night in casualty at Moriston with him! As my family were still here and the wind was blowing I decided to have windsurf instead...
Autumn arrives early
September is only a week away but it looks as though autumn has arrived early. It was pretty windy yesterday and my windsurf session on the seafront did have an autumnal feel to it. The sun was shining but the sea felt as though it meant business. Although it was a nice easy sail there...
Bring on the wind
It was one of those days today where I spend much of it wandering backwards and forwards to the beach waiting for the wind to pick up. It was forecast to swing to the SW and maybe pick up a little later in the day, but then that forecast changed and it didn’t look so...
Windiest Day of the Year.
It was pretty windy last night. We’re used to the wind here and it is quite often windier than you can imagine but it’s been so long since we’ve had any proper wind that it actually kept us a wake last night. According to the Borth and Ynyslas Weather Station it hit 46.9 knots which...
New moths from the weekend
It was a fairly windy weekend here and with rain overnight on Saturday, I didn’t put the moth trap out, but by Sunday evening the wind had dropped off so it looked good for a moth-trapping attempt. In the end it was fairly breezy but the temperature only dropped to 14.4ºC so it wasn’t a...
I’m a Windsurfer
Phew, at last I feel like a windsurfer again. So far this year has been pretty pathetic wind-wise. its been good for the garden and for cycling but I’ve barely been out windsurfing – Just 21 sessions so far according to my diary entries. Yesterday was good though with a 25-30 knots wind all day....
Sneaky BBQ and Windsurf Session
After an excellent day looking through the contents of my moth trap and geeking out on invertebrates on Cors Fochno (the bog behind our house), the sun was shining, there wasn’t a cloud in the sky, there was no wind and we were all starving. I therefore fired up the barbeque, picked some salad leaves...
Windsurfing at last – Some records broken!
The wind this year has been terrible so I’ve hardly been windsurfing. I nearly managed a session on Thursday night but the wind dropped so I blamed the lack of wind on the “curse of the new kit“. Since then I’ve had a little more luck. On Friday I managed an nice late afternoon windsurf...
Curse of the New Kit
Ever since buying my new windsurf speed kit way back in March, there just hasn’t been any wind. Not enough anyway. Yesterday however looked liked the most promising day so far, NE’s and hopefully Ivor our katabatic wind would show up. Usually on such occasions he starts blowing early in the morning, sometimes around 4.30am...
