Wind and weather information for Cabarete

Winds and weather information for Cabarete

Maintained by David Foster

Wind guru is my favorite wind forecasting site. Scroll to the bottom to see adjustments made for Cabarete. The arrows showing wind direction are useful. Typically the wind is East North East (arrows pointing left). The wind is side on shore from the right. It is not a good sign when the arrows swing away from this. The wind usually does not return until the direction shifts back to the normal East North East.

Magic seaweed: My surfer buddies watch the wave forecast for Playa El Encuentro at this site. El Encuentro is the country's leading surf break and is only five kilometers from Cabarete. The waves are best in the Winter months. The wind is best in the Summer. The PKRA World Cup is always held the last week of June. Peak season continues through July. August can be great but strangely enough when hurricanes pass by the southern side of the island the wind usually shuts down.

NOAA: You can find detailed analysis of Caribbean weather at NOAA under Tropical Weather Discussion during the hurricane season.

Real time wind and seven day wind archives measured at Vela in Cabarete Bay, and real time wind reported from the Nanny Estate weather station. Virtual buoy off the coast of Cabarete. This site always predicts more wind that actually develops.

UNISYS Aviation Model

48 Hour Surface Forecast: Courtesy of the UNISYS Weather Processor. HTML lifted from a R. Hays Cummins at Miami University (Ohio).

Experimental

Here is a new link:

Yahoo

The wind is best when the sky is clear. This allows the land to heat which then pulls the trade winds to shore. The wind in Cabarete seems to be a combination of trade and thermal winds.

NOAA

Waves (weather underground)

Webcam of the beach with a limited view of waves. Here is another cam (of bozo beach I think?).

Satellites infrared mosaic (accuweather)

NOAA Atlantic infrared loop (noaa)

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Windfinder

On average add 5 knots thermal wind to the Windfinder chart

Other local sites
Kitexcite has this wind forecast which is worth checking out.
The Kite lounge has this weather page which we are happy links to us!
Broken links
Tide & Daylight (mobilegeographics)