We were sheltering from strong northerly winds on the south side of Peel Island. Visibility was diminishing.
We’ve learned to check the radar to monitor the progress of inbound storms.
BoM alert confirming what we were already guessing from our own observations.
Hey, it’s become a bit dark for 4pm!
Oh, here we go. Here it comes!
The weather forecast suggested thunderstorms and we also knew that the northerly winds we’d used to sail from Wide Bay Bar/Fraser Island to Peel Island in Moreton Bay were now strengthening and expected to switch to 25kt S-SE by the following morning. It was so hot and extremely humid that the coast was shrouded in haze.
The wind dropped out, although not for long.
Wind and rain about to be delivered.
Weird light created by the approaching storm front.
Rain bucketing down and wind gusting to 37kts. Our decks and rigging received a proper power-wash and yet more red Bundaberg soil grit came out of the rigging.
Still blowing but with rain easing. The storm front now passed.
The southerly burst was replaced with the returning northerly.
Weather observations from Bureau of Meteorology. The Gold Coast Seaway is south and Cape Moreton is North of our location.
Glowing evening sky as if nothing had ever happened.
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