Author: Mike Godsey

West Coast Wind Blog: Baja forecast: Soufflés, Burgers and the Venturi effect.

Baja California forecast valid for Sat, Feb 8 2025 Late build reaches upper-teens with gusts over 20 strongest at Rasta Beach and La Ventana campground followed by Baja Joes and Los Barriles. Some forecast days are burgers, others are like Soufflés. A burger forecast is easy. Any mixture of the basic ingredients make it good,…

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West Coast Wind Blog: Distant Cut Off Low fans SoCal fire winds while bringing gust El Norte winds over Baja beaches.

Some new ingredients for todays wind recipe: 1. 1000 miles due west of La Ventana an upper Cut Off Low is creating a surface low-pressure which helps draw early wind right to our beaches. 2. High-pressure near the  4-Corners region fans the Southern California Santa Ana fire winds while sending El Norte winds down the…

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West Coast Wind Blog: Imagery autopsy of a dismal wind day for Baja.

Note: This autopsy imagery covers the impact of low-pressure over the Sea of Cortez on Baja’s East Cape winds. Tragically, that same low-pressure helped created massive Santa Ana winds in Southern California creating nightmare fire conditions. That event will be covered in an upcoming blog. Here is the text part of my wind forecast for…

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