Author: Mike Godsey

West Coast Wind Blog: Late-season NW winds along the coast and at San Francisco sites near the Pacific.

Sunday’s Wind Jargon Decoder: 1- A distant cold front bringing rain to the Gorge is compacting the NW ocean winds along our coast. 2- The dawn view from space shows NW ripples in the fog just offshore confirming that NW winds ≈ 1000 feet aloft will add a strong gust factor to the launch sites…

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West Coast Wind Blog: Atmospheric gravity waves near Waddell cause the surface NW winds to rise and fall in rhythm.

We are all used to seeing random gusts and lulls in the kite and windsurf wind graphs. This gives the wind graph a a jagged appearance. On good days the jags are small on bads days they are huge This first image shows a typical random wind pattern at Waddell on Thursday, July 31. But…

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West Coast Wind Blog: Cut Off Low blocks NW ocean winds while enhancing WSW flow inside Bay.

Wind Recipe:1- The Cut-Off Low ≈ 18,000 feet continues to block most of the NW ocean winds while enhancing:a. Coastal eddies. b. WSW ocean winds. c. Strong ≈ 1000 feet aloft WSW turbocharges surface wind at Sherman/TI/N. Tower. d. broken atypical marine layer. d. Cool weather. 2- The WSW ocean winds accelerate through gaps in…

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