West Coast Wind Blog: Forecast Jargon Decoder: A massive Gulf of Alaska wintry storm complex apparently did not get the word that we are moving into a La Niña pattern. Extending from a weak rainy front will graze the Bay Area Saturday pushing our NW down to the Waddell to Natural Bridges zone. Off the…
West Coast Wind Blog: Forecast Jargon Decoder, Oct 10, 2024 Sherman blows lightly early AM then late PM. Stronger winds near Anita Rock to Brooks Island. Coyote and 3rd channel blows but launch sites a bit iffy. 1 & 2. Patchy marine layer clouds mostly near the coast with slowly increasing high clouds and mare’s…
Enough of this! Here is how to save San Francisco’s reputation! The vast display of exposed skin at Crissy in recent afternoons has to end! It is bad for San Francisco’s reputation as the windy fog capital of the world, so here is my fix! 1. Coax the heat-producing upper ridge at ≈ 18,000 feet…
Forecast: FADE LIKELY! Mild BRIEF barely useful winds reach near Larkspur/Clark’s Brickyards, Flying Tigers/Haskins and Brooks Island and North Tower to Point Blunt. Now at 11:30 AM: High clouds are streaming over Sonoma and the Napa Valley which was suppose to be our strongest pressure gradient so I am dropping the forecast wind values From 7:30…
Professional Meteorologist Forecast Issued Wed, Oct 2 11:30:00 by Meteorologist Kerry Anderson – Next scheduled update: 7:00 PMSpecial updates issued as needed. Strong sea breeze activity for So Cal where the clouds clear. Temperatures are climbing quickly as we sit under a huge ridge. Central California: Offshore NNE flow has cleared the marine clouds. The beaches…
Forecast Jargon Decoder: Thursday Oct 3, 2024 Jargon: Compressional heating continues as masses of subsiding air continue to pour over the west coast today but at a slackening pace. In plain English, that means descending air from an upper ridge is descending to the surface, crushing the marine layer and pollutants to the surface while…
Forecast for Monday, Sept 20, 2024 Heat in the Central Valley is critical in producing the San Francisco Bay Area winds. That heat in the valley creates the low-pressure that produces the pressure gradient that sucks cool ocean winds through gaps in the Coast Range and over our launch sites. But too much heat can…
Forecast Jargon Decoder: Saturday Sept 21, 2024 The satellite imagery animation shows a rip-roaring eddy off Pt. Reyes with the lighthouse sensor SE 19g22! But the Sacramento pressure gradient is strong enough to turn those SW ocean winds into WNW winds 15g19 at Sherman Island. All this suggests I should just shut up and stick…
Preamble: Since the Bodega ocean buoy is NW 23g29, while the 449Hz profiler has average winds of 35 just aloft and my beloved Pt. Reyes is 23g3 I best will leave well enough alone: Sunday forecast: Powerful NW ocean winds obliterated the eddy and southerly coast winds as a massive, 3100 mile-wide North Pacific High…
Check out this forecast for Pt. Isabel and Berkeley today. When there is a heat wave and no marine layer or a thin marine layer that retreats fast, it becomes very difficult to forecast East Bay winds. This is because the hot air from the East Bay hills and the Central Valley extends towards Sherman…