Weather
Check the weather for hang gliding conditions in Sydney and Wollongong, NSW.
This page is to assist our clients and local pilots with planning their hang gliding flights at Stanwell Tops, and Sydney area.
Additional hang gliding weather updates can be found by following Curt's Tweets (left-hand side of this page).
Winds required for our local hang gliding sites:
Bald Hill, Stanwell Tops: South to East breeze
TANDEM: about 10 - 25 knots. SOLO: about 5 knots to 20 knots
Hill 60, Port Kembla: Northeast breeze
TANDEM: about 15-25 knots. SOLO: about 10 knots to 20 knots
Weather Forecasts Links:
An easy-to-read seven day forecast for wind, surf, tide, moon, and more. The wind UP at the takeoff site is often about 30% stronger than forecasted. -Winds increase with altitude. Be sure to drag your cursor over the wind-arrows to get the forecasted velocity.
A straight-forward four-day coastal waters forecast from the Bureau of Meterology. We look at both "Sydney Coastal Waters" & "Port Hacking to Ulladulla"
Wind speed and direction plotted on easy-to-read maps. Click on the map to zoom in to the Sydney area.
Australian national weather chart plotting the isobars, fronts and troughs. A trained eye can get a ton of info from these charts.
In-land soaring forecasts, and also useful coastal forecasts for the serious soaring pilot. Learn to use it, and you'll love it.
Current Observations Links:
The weather station about 10 kilometers south of Stanwell Park and five kilometers north of the Hill 60 hang gliding site in Port Kembla. We often monitor this local site with our i-phones for better short-term forecasts at Stanwell Tops.
The live weather station at the Stanwell Tops hang gliding site. If you can't be there, it's the next best thing.
Check for rain or storm cells in the region before you launch. We regularly use our i-phones for this service.
Photo by Curt in January 2010 above Stanwell Park, while the upper west winds and local on-shore seabreezes were converging, providing sensational light lift along the coast. -Notice the calm seas and puffy clouds.
