Frontal troughs, associated to an Atlantic low, move away to the north as high pressure builds over France, extending over the North Sea the coming days. The unsettled weather of the past days turns to spring weather with calm seas and low wind speed. Find out below where and when your workable windows will occur in this week’s weather update.
Weather impact
- Workability: For the North Sea, the unsettled conditions of the past period turns to quite good workable under the influence of high pressure approaching from the south. Even in the north wind is expected to ease to mostly moderate.
- Downtime risk: At first, strong winds and waves up to 3 meter, are still possible, especially over the northern North Sea. Also the passage of a weak frontal trough may result in temporarily decreasing conditions on Saturday. Even then, wind speed remains mostly fresh, with wave height around 1 meter, leading to short disruptions of sensitive maritime operations.
- Possible hazards: From Sunday on the Norwegian Sea may come influenced by lows over the northern Atlantic, with disrupting strong winds and associated moderate to rough seas. The actual development is still rather uncertain at this moment.
Weather situation
Frontal troughs, associated to an Atlantic low, move away to the north. High pressure builds over France, extending over the North Sea the coming days. For the North Sea, Bay of Biscay and Irish Sea this implies calm conditions as previously mentioned. The Norwegian Sea may become influenced by a steering large scale Atlantic low in the weekend, with strong westerly winds. Besides that Hs is expected to remain around or below 1 m for the rest of the week, meaning plenty of operational windows will occur.
Conclusion
Calm high pressure becomes predominant this week, so offshore planning and execution of operations will be possible for extended periods of time over the North Sea this week. For the Norwegian Sea the weather might take a turn for less good conditions in the weekend. As this development is rather uncertain at this point please keep an eye on your forecasts when you’re planning to work there.
Existing Infoplaza customers should use their dashboard and monitoring tools to track workability windows and regional changes. New prospects can contact Infoplaza to explore how marine weather intelligence supports safer planning, fewer surprises and better offshore decisions.
