...this is one of the stunning beauties of a part of the      Tweed Coast....   perfection in isolation....... My old playzone... "...surf till ya drop"

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Information & Ramblings

I'm sorry to inform you that these web pages ARE NOT going to tell you what the weather is going to be like in the Future. I do not pretend to have a crystal ball nor access to the Resources Of The BOM.

They ARE provided to allow locals and Tweeds visitors access to Information, in a single Web Location, which is relevant to the The Tweed Coast. If you Have lived in the local area for any amount of time you will already know or have a feeling as to the likelyhood, depending on the season, of the chance of it being Wet or Dry and also the chance of Strong or Light Winds and the direction they will blow.

• Summer is the Season of the NorthEasterlies (moist warm variable strength sea breezes that can sometimes blow all night)
• Winter the SouthWesterlies (Dry, Cool and Sometimes Strong)
• Late Spring to Early Summer, the Season of BushFires & Storms
  
• Late Summer Through Winter The Season of Rain Under the Influence of Tropical Cyclones and East Coast Lows.
  
• Late Winter Through early Spring The Dry with up to 6 weeks with out rain hot days with cold nights, through to about the end of October
  

What else would you expect for a Sub-Tropical , verging on Temperate, Warm Watered Coastal Climate
(I consider Places like Bundaburg, and lesser latitudes to be really in the SubTropics, but our coastal influence brings us closer to the same conditions, though slightly less Dry or Wet)
But the information will be of some use to those that understand the effect that todays conditions can bring to tomorrow' weather..

The Tides are for those that need to PLAN trips/etc ON or near the water and Should Not be considered Offical Tide Graphs for the Selectable Australian Locations. Once again they can give fairly close approximations to the Water Levels that can be expected for that date and time of day...

The Satellite Images are animated to give some idea of the duration that local conditions are likely to remain stable and/or when and from which direction changes might be expected to occur.

The Tweed Bar images are available to provide some "real time!" comparison to the data contained in the tables and charts

The Big Question When is the best surf, depends on your Idea of Good Surf, but you can Pretty well say that you should have something different to do around the Months of September-October, its not as though you wont get in the water, but it wont be big often nor will it last long if you do get lucky!, even the early can become a bit of a chat feast at "the office"

A new Access is available WAP Access If you have a WAP enabled Phone you can get a small selection of All the reports

and images available on the HTML pages by just Browsing to http://www.4tfingers.biz/ with The Phone Browser or go directly

to http://www.4tfingers.biz/xmlw/ With the Phone or you can use your Desktop Browser to see what is available as a Simulation...
Well things have changed a little now but all pages should be Working.
The Bookmarks may turn up a couple of errors as I have changed some of the Page Names to Simplify my updating.
Hopefully i will get some time to update some of the Pages etc over the next couple of months

Let me know if you Can't find something or want something changed! Yeah, Right!

News

A selection of BUOYWEATHER's Virtual Buoy (for the Gold Coast) has been added to the Predictions Page

Server Location

The Little Star on the Map Image Below is the location of the Server. This is just to Offer some understanding as to why the Focus of these pages is the Tweed Coast of NSW Australia. Google Earth = "Server Location" lat=-28.3591716339, lon=153.554362801

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Full Moons 2007 3 January 1:57pm GMT 2 February 5:45am GMT 3 March 11:17pm GMT 2 April 5:15pm GMT 2 May 10:09am GMT 1 June (Blue Moon) 1:04am GMT 30 June (Blue Moon) 1:49pm GMT 30 July 12:48am GMT 28 August 10:35am GMT 26 September 7:45pm GMT 26 October 4:52am GMT 24 November 2:30pm GMT 24 December 1:16am GMT 2008 22 January 1:35pm GMT 21 February 3:30am GMT 21 March 6:40pm GMT 20 April 10:25am GMT 20 May 2:11am GMT 18 June 5:30pm GMT 18 July 7:59am GMT 16 August 9:16pm GMT 15 September 9:13am GMT 14 October 8:02pm GMT 13 November 6:17am GMT 12 December 4:37pm GMT 2009 11 January 3:27am GMT 9 February 2:49pm GMT 11 March 2:38am GMT 9 April 2:56pm GMT 9 May 4:01am GMT 7 June 6:12pm GMT 7 July 9:21am GMT 6 August 12:55am GMT 4 September 4:03pm GMT 4 October 6:10am GMT 2 November 7:14pm GMT 2 December (Blue Moon) 7:30am GMT 31 December (Blue Moon) 7:13pm GMT 2010 30 January 6:18am GMT 28 February 4:38pm GMT 30 March 2:25am GMT 28 April 12:18pm GMT 27 May 11:07pm GMT 26 June 11:30am GMT 26 July 1:37am GMT 24 August 5:05pm GMT 23 September 9:17am GMT 23 October 1:36am GMT 21 November 5:27pm GMT 21 December 8:13am GMT 2011 19 January 9:21pm GMT 18 February 8:36am GMT 19 March 6:10pm GMT 18 April 2:44am GMT 17 May 11:09am GMT 15 June 8:14pm GMT 15 July 6:40am GMT 13 August 6:57pm GMT 12 September 9:27am GMT 12 October 2:06am GMT 10 November 8:16pm GMT 10 December 2:36pm GMT (source: MoonPhases )

High in the sky are the constellations Canis Major (The Great Dog), Orion (The Hunter) and Gemini (The Twins). The Southern Cross remains low in the sky toward the south-east. To find the Southern Cross locate the two bright pointer stars that point at the Southern Cross like an arrow. Towards the west the planet Venus is visible about 30 minutes after sunset. Saturn rises early in the evening towards the north-east and can be seen as a yellow-white coloured star. Using a small telescope to view Saturn easily shows the rings. When looking for Venus or Saturn remember: stars twinkle and planets don't Reference sydneyobservatory Finding the South Pole Once identified, the Southern Cross can be used to locate the pivot point around which all stars orbit in the Southern Hemisphere, the South Pole. Beginning with the 'Pointer Stars' alpha and beta Centauri, draw a line between these two, then extend a mid-point perpendicular toward the very bright star Achernar, far to your right. Now advance up to the Southern Cross, and connect the two axes stars, gamma and alpha, and extend this line down toward the first line that you mentally drew. This line will eventually cross the other line; where they cross is the very general region of the South Pole. The Cross is nearly circumpolar to most parts of Australia. That is, only briefly - in September through early November - does it dip for a time below the horizon. Even in these months later in the evening, just before sunrise, it usually does make an appearance. By early January, around midnight, the Cross is nicely visible Source