Prepared by: Bruce Buckley (Weather Australia)

Weather situation

The weather pattern for this leg of the World ARC is a relatively favourable one. There is a ridge of high pressure well established to the south of Australia with a weak heat trough over the northwest Kimberley. This trough should also form inland from Darwin this afternoon. To the north the monsoonal trough lies across equatorial Indonesia, well to the north of Bali. With this weather pattern there should be good cruising conditions through to Bali with mid range southeast trade winds once the fleet is outside the range of the sea breezes that will affect Darwin and the Tiwi Islands.