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Weather

Links to satisfy your need for wind.

 

Watkins wind watch

www.earthsci.unimelb.edu.au/~awatkins/bay

Your one stop shop for conditions around Melbourne's Port Phillip Bay includes current conditions, forecasting, web cams and wind and temperature achives, to name a few features.

 

Ozwind

www.ozwind.com.au

Uses easy to understand illustrative diagrams representing current wind conditions around Australia.

 

Bureau of Meteorology Australia

www.bom.gov.au

All the information you will need concerning Australia's weather and wind. Some of the features worth checking out include weather radar displays and explanations of weather terminology.

 

Windguru

www.windguru.com

Easy to understand forecasting and achives of wind and weather around the world.

Understanding weather conditions is an integral part of kiteboarding and progression through the sport.

These links are provided to set your foundations of weather knowledge, helping you to establish an understanding of all Integral aspects of the sport.

*Kiteboarding is a highly weather dependent sport. Lessons will only be conducted in suitable conditions left to the instructor’s discretion, this is to help ensure a safe, enjoyable, controlled and most importantly a fun learning environment.