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It’s going to be complicated and difficult.
It’s a very disturbed situation in the Atlantic
with the Azores High not in her usual position
and depressions which won’t roll through very far South
so the whole race zone has been turned on its head somewhat.
It’s difficult to get the weather models to come up
with the same scenario.
That’s Alberto, which we passed through yesterday.
That’s the situation where we put in a gybe
and our colleagues got a bit trapped inside.
Alberto’s been tailing us since yesterday
and the further behind you are, the closer to Alberto you are,
the more wind you have and the quicker you go
and the more ground you make up on the frontrunner.
As such, bit by bit, our lead is melting like snow in the sunshine.
Those behind still have air and even though they’re getting closer,
once they’re up with us they’ll have the same breeze.
That’s par for the course of the hunter
and the hunted when you’re going from the West
and the United States, to Europe.
That’s often how it is.
You make headway with the systems
and then you slip between them and those behind catch up.
I think the deficits will continue to shrink
or extend like that all the way to Lisbon.