out on the water today, PL V13
at about 6pm for a ride, really nice ,
plenty of wind 15-20mph
rippin' it/jumpin' general fun stuff...then


http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.as...

this was in the blink of eye no real warning except for the sand i could see blasting down the beach from the water on an air when i just happened to catch a glimpes and immediately headed in. on the beach, i dropped the kite and like a explosion hit, just as the kite starts to flag. stuff is flying by chairs/ umbrellas/beach junk.

couple of odd direction changes which was the really intense. the kite is whipping all over the place. with gloves on it was difficult to hold. one gust partically had me on the ground.
trying to find out the peak gust but only one good station relatively close.

you never know.

:wow:

Look how the dew point dropped at 6:30- looks like a cold thermal came in and thats what caused the dramatic winds.

Should have grabbed one of the umbrellas and done some buggying!

In tune and in touch saved the day. Nice awareness!

Lesson to be learned for all of us. Glad you saw it early and shut it down in time.

wow! sounds like a near kitemare! glad you saw what was happening and got out in time.

Sounds like a few stories from NABX
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I'm lucky as most afternoons I hit the beach...you do get a sense of awareness with time spent...BUT I always know to be wary of gifts from the west....

keep it up! i always enjoy your posts...we had the same twitchy stormy stuff lately

where were you (zip code)?

zip code looks like 29928 or thereabouts
wow, glad you are OK. The same front hit us with gusts and dropped the temp about 20 degrees, but it arrived with a line of boomers that gave a tell-tale. Looks like your gusts topped out at 40. Could have been a mess. Good on you for coming in when you did.

We are still going to top 100 degrees today. Darn.

where were you (zip code)?

29928
hhi SC

not as werid as friday

from the wsw this black cell with lightening for legs,

in the past 2 weeks we have had 3-4 strange conditions show up they are all in the thermal zone time around 5-7pm

:eekdrull:

wow ! like i said intense

that's what it felt like, no wonder i could hold the 13 down

huge gust no doubt

that dissection of the broad data i had really explains nicely

+ 60mph incredible

what site ?

We had the same bump at Jekyll Island station but not as intense. I was inside as it looked bad in the sky.

The site is iKitesurf.com and they have a feed from the new station on Jekyll

went nice to nuclear to me and a buddly last night... one minute gravy winds, good boarding, and pow! Winds skyrocketed! we had virtually no warning! rain, hail, and nasty winds... but it left as fast as it came.. we had a good time after thath tho