This is just a quick visual on the just forming small eddy west of the Golden Gate. This eddy will greatly enlarge during the next 12 hours and bring southerly winds to much of the Central California coast. It is all a matter of perspective… All available data still supports this bipartisan forecast. Watch…
Gusts and lulls, up and down, crazy wind. Why are winds sometimes mild and other times wild? There are many complex meteorological causes for the turbulence that causes gusts and lulls, but here we focus on gusts and lulls winds where the causes are very local and easy to visualize. The local cause of gusts…
Way back in June I said in the iwindsurf.com forums: “Hi jgda, …we are in the early phase of a La Nina pattern. This means wider N-S swings in the pattern of upper trough and upper ridges inbound from the Pacific We will probably have more such swings this summer which in theory means more…
surfersteve wrote: “It feels like the corridor (Hatchery/Cheap stretch) has been particularly lumpy this year regarding of water level, flow rate, or wind direction. Curious if others have thoughts on this.” Hi Steve, The short answer is in the image below. Longer answer: Swell size and period and steepness vs. chop is related to: 1….
by Mike Godsey, mikeATwindsurf.com ROUGH DRAFT If you are a Pt. Isabel or Sherman Island or sometimes Larkspur regular you are loving all the southerly flow for the unending eddies this summer. And you are probably noticing how the forecasts usually nail the eddy pattern. But if you are a Waddell or 3rd. kiter you…
by Mike Godsey, MikeATiwindsurf.com You may have noticed the warning in today’s forecast saying: “With strong NNW winds at the 975 mb. level at ≈ 1,000 ft. the prevailing surface winds may be diverted at times at some sites. Note: NNW winds aloft may make the winds UP AND DOWN at times especially Pt….
Long long ago in a climatologically different universe, Larkspur Landing/PSQ was an extremely popular windsurfing site. Sir Francis Drake Blvd. was so jammed on both sides of the highway by windsurfers fighting for parking that is was common for 5 PM traffic to be gridlocked on windy days. And, back then there were 3 windsurfing…
by Mike Godsey, mikeATwindsurf.com I put out a marine surge alert this morning and at 11:47. Now at 5 PM it is clear I was right about the marine surge arriviing tomorrow. In the satellite animation below you can see how fast the southerly marine surge has moved since dawn. If it continued that march…
by Mike Godsey, mikeATiwindsurf.com jmarik wrote about Part 1 of this blog: Hi Mike, Does this explain why 3rd Ave. channel was ripping while SFO was reading only low 20’s today? Cheers. Hi jmarik, I think you are probably right about the SFO winds. As you can see in this first image of yesterday’s standing waves…
by Mike Godsey & Matt Sounders, mikeATiwindsurf.com Link to Part Two of this blog. So take a look at this wind map from today, June 15. Do you see two very strange things? Benicia has AVERAGE wind of 29 and my forecast last night called for very strong UP AND DOWN winds for Benicia. As you…