VANCOUVER ISLAND WINDTALK

On the webcam the wind is blowing hard from the west this afternoon, but your display for the wind measurement continually reads East. I'm confused.

From the map:
http://www.bigwavedave.ca/GoogleMaps/ma ... pos=island

I think the orientation of the inlet is more South to North, so South=inflow and North=outflow.

From the flags in the the webcam right now it looks like there are bent a bit from the E, so from looking I would guess the wind right now is from the SSE. Yes straight E is a bit strange - I adjusted the angle a bit so now it reads SE.

I was just looking in more detail at the orientation of the harbour in that stretch too and thinking ah this is why he calls the newbies kook. I may have asked a dumb question.

I can definitely see the southerly rather than west. West doesn't make sense either. It could be channeled along the higher elevation land to a SE direction at that particular point, but I suspect most of the harbour is getting southerly.