Disturbed Weather
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I recently sailed from Panama to French Polynesia, during the course of the trip Windy often showed areas, gaps, holes, fingers in Blue (light wind) with the surrounding area relatively consistent wind shown in Green.
When in these Blue areas it was most often that the wind and weather was quite disturbed, with squalls, stronger winds, directional changes and rain / storms
Am I interpreting this correctly as I am about to start the remainder of the pacific crossing and see several areas like this around Tahiti in the coming forecast -
@Medea
It would be suitable to provide a screenshot to pinpoint exactly the area where you observed these wind anomalies.From Panama to Tahiti you cross the equator. In the equatorial region the doldrums (ITCZ in more scientific words) is an area where winds are generally very weak but where strong convection generates typical convective phenomena..
See more information in this article and this thread.
ECMWF model cannot provide the precise location of these thunderstorms. Only 1km-resolution models could do that, but none is available in this area.
However the Satellite layer, in infra view, provides the location of the current storms but not their future position.
In addition, the Thunderstorms layer of the ECMWF predicts the area where they are expected to occur in the coming days.
