See the image below: Our large-scale (synoptic in geek talk) wind machines take a much-needed vacation today. 1. & 2: Both the North Pacific High and the Great Basin High Pressure drift towards the USA’s Pacific Northwest and send weak wind to La Ventana and Los Barriles. 3 & 4: They do send moderate winds…
This, like last year, has been a great season with mild to moderate wind days most of the time. But you will hear the old-timers, especially windsurfers, grumbling about the lack of big El Norte days that used to be the wind signature of La Ventana and Los Barriles in past decades. Several times each…
Despite the forecast for solid winds at La Ventana and somewhat lesser winds for El Sargento and Los Barriles the winds looked a bit iffy mid morning. Clouds clogged the coastal valleys and the winds plateaued in the mid to upper-teens. Then as you see in this satellite imagery the clouds cleared the Los Planes…
Tuesday, January 17, 2023 Later today the North Pacific High’s moves a finger of high pressure over wind machine’s trigger then fires off Wednesday shooting northerly wind our way for days and days. In meteorological terms, the NPH is pushing a finger of high pressure toward the Great Basin today. Then tomorrow that bit of…
Take a look at my banner photo from my house last year. Notice the near glassy waters near the beach much like today but with low swell. Now notice that dark line. That is called a local sea breeze front. It is the point there the warm air rising from the Los Planes Valley cools…
We have had a long spell of mild wind days with a varying combo of wind from a weak North Pacific High west of Baja + local sea breezes. Tomorrow high pressure builds in then Great Basin and we see stronger El Norte winds from that high pressure + NNW winds from the North Pacific…
Notice the huge mass of clouds carried by the Sub-Tropical Jetstream from a disturbance to the SW over Baja Sur. This mass of clouds has been lingering north of Baja’s East Cape the last few days but overnight lunged over us. If those clouds linger we will have weak unreliable wind. However, watching the satellite…
Yesterday saw an abrupt drop of the wind velocity at some La Ventana sensors around 2:30 PM. This fade nicely illustrates the importance of heat in the Los Planes Valley. Below is my forecast for yesterday which mentions the possibility of this happening. This satellite imagery shows the massive clouds to our north and the…
If the multimodel ensemble forecast for spare clouds today, Wednesday, Nov. 30, is correct we should see good heating in the Los Planes Valley inland of La Ventana. This heating is critical to get the winds to the beach since most of our large scale breeeze today is NNW wind from the North Pacific High…