Author: Mike Godsey

West Coast Wind Blog: San Francisco’s reputation as the foggy wind capital of the world threatened.

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…

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West Coast Wind Blog: Cam imagery of San Francisco inversion on weak wind day.

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…

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West Coast Wind Blog: Southern California winds impacted by “Heat Bubble” issues!

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…

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West Coast Wind Blog: Using cams and fog flow to see pressure gradients to Central Valley

The cams atop Mt. Diablo and Mt. Tam show a sea of fog blanketing the Bay Area with both the Carquinez Strait, Napa Valley and the Santa Clara Valley fog filled. This fog distribution, along with the barometers, tells us that there is a strong pressure gradient to Napa, Sacramento, Stockton and towards Bakersfield. So…

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West Coast Wind Blog: How Coast Range Gaps and Central Valley pressure gradients shape San Francisco winds

Forecast Jargon Decoder: August 3, 2024 A broad streamer of dense low fog blankets the coast and Central Bay, but it shrinks to a narrow steamer that only impacts the Crissy winds. A rainy Gulf of Alaska storm crushes the North Pacific High’s surface NW winds against the west coast. So the NW ocean winds…

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