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glfmkg
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- Kiting since: 2019
- Weight: 220
- Local Beach: White Rock, BC, Canada
- Favorite Beaches: White Rock, BC
Squamish, BC
Nitinaht Lake, BC, Vancouver Island
Crescent Beach, BC
Boundary Bay, BC
Tsawwassen, BC
Nanaimo, BC
- Style: Freestyle, Big Air, Foiling
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Airush Ultra 7m, 9m, 12m, 14m
Airush Wave 7m
Airush Lift 9m
Naish Pivot 12m
OR Rise A-Series 12m
Boards:
North Atmos 141
Ocean Rodeo Mako 165
Cabrinha Spectrum 144
Moses T65 Foling Board with a 633W front wing
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- Location: Coquitlam, BC, Canada
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Postby glfmkg » Tue May 18, 2021 10:00 pm
I really love what you have created! I use it daily and thank you for the time you put into it! Great tool.
G.
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appelton
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- Weight: 190lbs
- Local Beach: Belmont Shore / CA
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Postby appelton » Thu May 20, 2021 4:06 pm
Any chance we could get WRF weather forecast ? Right now the most accurate forecast in igetwind.com is HRR. It's very accurate but I've noticed that WRF would be even more accurate.
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laf1greg
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Postby laf1greg » Thu May 20, 2021 10:33 pm
yes the HRRR is made by NOAA from a WRF run, it seems the WRF and it,s derivative are accurate in california, here in montreal it's not the best.
https://nomads.ncep.noaa.gov/txt_descri ... _doc.shtml
From my understanding there is no pure WRF data from noaa, they use it to produce HRRR an RAP, so I would have to make my own run of wrf ... a big project!!!
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IDAVIS
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- Posts: 132
- Joined: Fri Mar 29, 2019 2:25 am
- Local Beach: Cesantes
Aguieira
Sabon
Lingunde
Santa Cristina
(Galicia, north from Spain)
- Favorite Beaches: Taiba (BR)
Cauipe (BR)
Aguieira (ESP)
Sabon (ESP)
Cesantes (ESP)
Pobra Caramiñal (ESP)
Lingunde (ESP)
Barraña (ESP)
Razo (ESP)
- Style: Freestyle / kite Foil / Big Air
- Gear: Airush Razor 9m & 11m v9,13m v10 (freestyle)
Airush Livewire Team v8 140x42
Airush Ultra Team 12m / Airush One 9m v2 (Foil)
Slingshot Phantasm PFH 581
North Sonar CF95 / MA 850 v2
North Mini Scoop 2024
North Orbit PRO 2024 9m (Big Air)
North Atmos Carbon 2024 138x41
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Postby IDAVIS » Sat May 22, 2021 8:21 am
laf1greg wrote: ↑Tue Apr 24, 2018 6:37 pm
Hi my name is Grégoire Lafortune, I'm a wind enthousiast and software developer from Montreal Canada.
Since 2016 I'm working on a new project : iGetwind.com. It's a wind/waves/tides forecast web application for kitesurfers and windsurfers worldwide. North America gets models HRRR, NAM, GFS, HDPRS and europe gets ICON-EU and GFS. Plus waves/tides and GFS forecasts for the entire world.
I invite you to try it and send me feedback :
https://igetwind.com
Thanks
Grégoire
Hi, you don't add any kite spot from galicia (Spain)
Santa Cristina
Sabon
Aguieira
Cesantes
Lourido
Isla arousa
Santa comba
San xurxo
Camariñas
Os muiños
Laxe
Balares
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laf1greg
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Postby laf1greg » Sat May 22, 2021 1:25 pm
Hi IDAVIS, thanks for your comment.
You can add all these spots on your page just by clicking on the map OR do a text search.
Then if you are login you have the possibility to add a spot to igetwind so everyone else can see it on the map.
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laf1greg
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Postby laf1greg » Thu May 19, 2022 7:48 pm
New for 2022 You can now mix a REALTIME wind graph in your spot list. There is 40K wind stations around the world (thanks NOAA) that you can choose from. You can organize your 8 forecasts and realtime wind graph in your preferred order. Good season to you all!
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Robsw6
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- Kiting since: 1999
- Local Beach: Hayling Island
- Favorite Beaches: One eye, Sidi Kaouki, Big Bay, Gwithian & Hayling
- Style: Powered
- Gear: Reedins, Orbit2s & Surfboards (Cabrinha's & Naish), Nomad/TAD Mutants, Flash 4'10 & Naish Pro 4'10, Moses Hydrofoil & North Atmos
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Postby Robsw6 » Fri May 20, 2022 9:20 am
glfmkg wrote: ↑Tue May 18, 2021 10:00 pm
I really love what you have created! I use it daily and thank you for the time you put into it! Great tool.
G.
+1... although I was initially sceptical, as the name reminded me a little bit of "I got worms", the site & forecast data is very impressive
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laf1greg
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Postby laf1greg » Sat May 21, 2022 4:09 am
as the name reminded me a little bit of "I got worms",
the site & forecast data is very impressive
Thanks! I put years of effort into it. Glad you like it.
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Pemba
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Postby Pemba » Sat May 21, 2022 10:34 am
The three different types of swell seem a bit excessive or confusing to me. But I'm in the process of learning to surf so I don't have much idea. Can somebody explain the use (not the differences) for three ? Otherwise it seems nice, I'll give it a try.
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Postby laf1greg » Sat May 21, 2022 3:57 pm
The three different types of swell seem a bit excessive or confusing to me
If you want to understand waves you need to make the difference between "ground swell" and "wind swell". The wind swell is what we also call Tchop, It is short wave created by the wind and it usually produce very short period waves the are poor for surfing.
The ground swell comes from the "wind swell" but after it traveled hundreds or thousands of kilometers. Thats creates more period between each wave and the waves go deeper in the ocean so when it hit the reef it has more power, that creates cleaner surfable waves.
Here in igetwind you can see the wind swell that is created locally by the wind - not very good for surf and usually with a very low period < 10 seconds
And then you have 2 others ground swell that are the ones coming from far and sometimes have greater period > 10 seconds.
Take note that to have good quality surf wave you usualy need longer period > 12 seconds.
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