Hi folks That’s an interesting observation Jeremy. Perhaps we could test it by organising a snap pelagic the weekend directly after the next significantly below average spring weather event? Any takers?? Mona On 25/09/2013, at 11:59 AM, Jeremy O’Wheel wrote: > In the days just preceding the highly successful pelagic we had 3 days of > significantly below average temperatures in Hobart, including snow > allegedly falling (but not settling) in the city centre, and certainly > settling on Mount Wellington. The monthly lowest low and lowest high were > both set that week and from Wednesday until Friday temperatures were 3.5 to > 5 degrees below average, this is despite this winter being the warmest on > record, and September being above average overall. In contrast, the last > week has mainly be well above average, including 5 degrees above average on > Saturday and 7 degrees above average yesterday. > > I don’t recall seeing any weather maps around the dates, so I don’t know > whether these were local conditions or more widespread, but I would guess > that it’s possible that the abnormally cold weather just before that > amazing pelagic played a part. > > Jeremy > > > On 25 September 2013 11:03, Daniel Mantle <danmantle@hotmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> As Paul Dodd has already mentioned a group of us decided to try our luck >> off Eaglehawk Neck on the weekend just gone. This was in response to the >> very successful trips organised by Rohan Clarke the previous weekend. >> However our trips were very quiet by Tasmanian standards (indeed also a lot >> quieter than the trips that quite a few us had been on three weeks earlier >> – also off Eaglehawk Neck). >> >> It will be interesting to see if anything can be worked out from the >> weather and sea conditions leading up to the successful earlier trips. The >> water temperatures were nearly identical between both weekends and a quick >> look at the preceding weeks weather for Rohan’s trips does not seen to >> immediately suggest such a remarkable number and diversity of cold water >> specialists. But clearly I am missing something. The only thing the skipper >> had to add was that there were very strong current lines that weekend. >> >> Although our weekend was a lot quieter at sea, it was as always great to >> be offshore from Tas with a fun bunch of seabirders. >> >> I have posted the full reports to the SOSSA website. I think the following >> link should work (Nikolas Haass’s trip report for the start of the month is >> also to be found there). >> >> >> http://www.sossa-international.org/forum/showthread.php?192-Eaglehawk-Neck-Pelagics-Saturday-21-9-13-amp-Sunday-22-9-13&p=363#post363 >> >> A quick summary of the highlights for the weekend were: 4 Southern Royal >> Albatross, four Wandering Albatross (2 exulans, 1 gibsoni, 1 antipodensis), >> one Salvin’s Albatross, one White-headed Petrel, one White-chinned Petrel, >> 80+ Common Diving-Petrel, 9 Northern Giant-Petrel, 1 Southern Giant-Petrel, >> and singles of both Grey-backed and White-faced Storm-Petrel. >> >> Cheers Dan >> >> =============================== >> >> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, >> send the message: >> unsubscribe >> (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) >> to: birding-aus-request@vicnet.net.au >> >> http://birding-aus.org >> =============================== >> > =============================== > > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, > send the message: > unsubscribe > (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) > to: birding-aus-request@vicnet.net.au > > http://birding-aus.org > =============================== =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) to: birding-aus-request@vicnet.net.au http://birding-aus.org ===============================
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