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2:42:00 AM @ M45 Kite Station: From the SSW at 6.0 MPH Gusting to 8.0 MPH, 62.8 F (17.1 C) |
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| *Today* North winds to 30 knots. Showers until midday...then partly sunny with a slight chance of showers in the afternoon. Waves 4 to 6 feet. |
| *Tonight* North winds 15 to 25 knots. Mostly clear. Waves 3 to 5 feet subsiding to 2 to 4 feet toward daybreak. |
| *Friday* Northwest winds 10 to 15 knots. Sunny. Waves 1 to 3 feet. |
| *Friday Night* North winds 10 to 15 knots veering northeast 5 to 10 knots toward daybreak. Partly cloudy. Waves around 1 foot. |
There’s a lot of great kiteboarding in West Michigan but no location has more wind more often than Little Sable Point. Yesterday the forecast for West Michigan was dismal at only around 10 knots. Farther north around Big Sable Point the kiteboarding forecast looked slightly better. With the sunny skies we were hoping for some thermal wind action so we [...]
We’ve decided that St. Patricks Day weekend is the official “opening day” for kiteboarding season. Way to go Jetty on making it two years in a row. 20 degree wind chill and sun made conditions just good enough for the area riders. Jetty was sort of right in his weekend warrior kiteboarding forecast although he undershot [...]
I just got back from a great trip to Exuma Island in the Bahamas. Weather was in 80′s and sunny everyday. I brought my gear down with the hope of riding in the warm blue clear waters. Well the wind didn’t pan out as well as I hoped, but I did get one good afternoon [...]
Jetty is on his way back from a tropical kiteboarding vacation in Exuma in the Bahamas and I hope he had good winds but a few weeks ago we had a pretty fun snowkiting session right here at City Beach in Grand Haven. The cold weather we’ve been having froze over the first couple hundred feet of Lake Michigan shoreline so there was enough [...]
My wife found some lost kiteboarding footage from last summer in West Bay, Traverse City. There’s not a lot of kiteboarding action but you can see how beautiful it is up there so I thought I’d post it. We were visiting at my parent’s friend’s house and I brought my gear with us just in case the wind [...]