Nothing happening in terms of departure. Nothing to report other than that the weather, in what I would call the north east Pacific, is just a series of lows following each other and giving us strong head winds across to Hawaii.
I was searching to find out how to interpret one column of the published weather forecast by the NOAA for the aviation route and came across the personal blog site of Tom Bravender who happens to be the Aviation Program Manager for the National Weather Service, Honolulu ,HI which forecast for the air routes from USA to Hawaii. He explained the data in the particular column and sent me a chart detailing the zones for which they forecast along the route. The zones are simply 5 degree segments along the Great Circle route between US and Hawaii.
He also wrote: 'Good luck with the winds! This season has proved to be pretty typical of an El Nino winter, with a nearly zonal jet and persistent westerly wind component'. You can work out what a nearly zonal jet is because I don't know.
Tom has picked up on this blog site and is passing it on to the Hawaii forecasters as he thought it would be interesting as they were probably unaware of the degree of planning and preparation required to fly the route for which they were forecasting.
All we need is for them to 'on their toes' and to be extremely accurate in forecasting the precise weather for the day we depart.
I intend to continue loading the route segments as in Chapter 26 and then go back to sleep while we wait for better winds, which I don't see happening until some time after 12th March.
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