North East West Passage: Forecast 21 July - day 8
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Storm situation for early Friday morning, in between the ports of Kirkenes and Murmansk.
Weather Forecast North East West passage -21 July- day 8
General situation:
In the developing high pressure the wind will further drop away today. Than over the Scandinavian continent a belt of low pressure develops of which a first center comes across tonight/tomorrow. But the main stormdepression is expected for Thursday night early Friday morning. This feature is expected to generate heavy winds over the Southern parts of the Barentz Sea. At this stage they still calculate winds exceeding 40-50kt average, which is 9-10 on scale of Beaufort. The combination of the weak wind today and the Easterly wind tomorrow and the storm on Thursday night could you make you take in consideration to wait until Friday to leave the port of Kirkenes. This would give you the advantage of a nice moderate decreasing WNW’ly wind that is favourable to sail from K to Murmansk.
All forecasted winds are average values.
Day 1: 21 July
Position: around Kirkenes: 69.730/30.015
Weather: sunny spells with showery outbreaks. After 15/18utc becoming overcast followed by moderate rainfall after 00utc.
Wind: further decreasing becoming less than 5kt from variable directions. After 18/21utc turning to 060-080°5-10kt. After 00utc 070-090°10-15kt.
Day 2: 22 July
Position: from 69.730/30.015 to 68.986/32.937
Weather: very cloudy to overcast with moderate to temporarily heavy rainfall. Following night storm conditions develop.
Wind: 060-080°12-17kt, after 12/15utc 080-100°20-25kt. After 21/00utc veering to 180-200° and increasing to 25-30kt.
Day 3: 23 July
Position: around Murmansk 68.986/32.937
Weather: very cloudy with rain becoming rainshowers and during the late afternoon/evening further clearing and becoming dry.
Wind: early morning: at sea: 290-310°30-35kt temporarily increasing up to 40-45kt. After 12/15utc generally decreasing.