My forecast yesterday, Tuesday, Nov. 15 was for early winds but with clouds as an issue. Both of those forecasts came true but with a twist. The entire Los Planes Valley was clear mid-day to early afternoon so the winds were a bit stronger than forecast. But the cloud really danced around the valley all…
Long ago the powerful winter northerly winds that started in the middle of the night and then blew for several days were called the “El Norte” winds. This photo taken at the sand bar break called “The General’s) just north of the La Ventana campground shows a classic El Norte day. In recent years those…
Clouds are likely to limit local sea breezes today and make it difficult for weak El Norte NNE winds to reach the shore:
Today we are seeing a massive 4000-mile-wide North Pacific High repeating last winter’s pattern. On the right margin is the Southern California wind graphs from Ventura to San Diego’s Silver Strand. What caused these strong NW winds clearing winds in November? The first map image shows the North Pacific High which is located in a…
As we go into the 3rd La Nina winter our hope is that this is a repeat of last year’s epic winds from the North Pacific High. Typically La Nina means poorer winds compared to a Neutral Year. But last year the North Pacific High hung closer to Baja’s west coast than normal from whence…
Here is the link to the daily forecast Take a look at that computer gear at my workstation in the La Ventana area. Ancient gear, huh? You can tell I have been doing Baja forecasting for a while. Since those times my computer gear is much faster and my forecasts far better. Below are some…
Here is the link to the daily forecast This graphic tells you how to use the various Weatherflow sensors installed in the La Ventana area. As more customers arrive and set up their WeatherFlow-Tempest sensors this page will show more wind data: El Sargento, La Ventana and Los Barriles sensors. The Weatherflow sensor at Baja…
Sometimes times you don’t need a sensor. Just a photo, like this one showing the gear of choice at one of the 3rd. Ave. launches Saturday October22 @ 5: 15 PM. This photo from the cam tells you a lot about the wind velocity Today was a very weird case of “NW clearing winds”. Weird…
We are used to big NW clearing winds in the spring. But such events are rare in late October. Rarer yet is a counter-clockwise spinning eddy and southerly coast winds evolving into a powerful NW wind event. These images show how this event evolved. See satellite imagery of this event in this blog.
Hi Mike Hi Mike, “The extended forecast for saturday is saying “waddell low teens”. “Yet the computer generated AND the NWS both are showing 20+ (for October 22)” I seem to have to use the NWS instead of the “in person” (extended forecasts) for Waddell. Of course the NWS shows winds “out at sea” and…