by Mike Godsey Until this last decade, El Norte winds from the 4 corners region used to be the sole source of strong winds in the Sea of Cortez. These winds have a mostly NORTH direction which makes them side-onshore winds relative to most Sea of Cortez beaches. This means the wind do not need to…
Find the 2 “L’s” in this graphic. Those are the centers of the storm that is dumping rain and snow on California. So, why should you care? After all you came to Baja’s East Cape to get away from rain and snow and they could not possibly impact you in your winter wind refuge. Wrong! Looking…
by Mike Godsey, Link to daily Baja forecast Mild wind set up today as bullets 1-5 show in the image below. But more importantly these 2 photos from last night and dawn today remind us there is more to life in La Ventana than wind. But look carefully in the upper left corner between Eureka,…
Find the 2 “L’s” in this graphic. Those are the centers of the storm that is dumping rain and snow on California. So, why should you care? After all you came to Baja’s East Cape to get away from rain and snow and they could not possibly impact you in your winter wind refuge. Wrong! Looking…
by Mike Godsey In past decades the North Pacific High’s average position in the Pacific varies seasonally as you can see in this first graphic showing its average monthly location over 43 years. In January the NPH is small and typically well west of Baja. Then as spring develops the NPH slowly migrates northward while enlarging….
by Mike Godsey We are moving into a weird pattern starting late Thursday or more likely Friday. Looking at the Surface Winds Friday you will notice that there are strong El Norte winds for the northern Sea of Cortez and also in the Cabo area south. But there is a suspicious “Weak Wind Zone on…
by Mike Godsey Check out this imagery. First, notice that almost every sensor in the greater Bay Area is being hit by powerful winds. And in the wind graphs notice the extreme Up and Down conditions as mentioned in my forecast. Also notice how the radar imagery shows heavy rain all the way from our…
by Mike Godsey I am going to let the modeled weather imagery tell most of this story. The first image shows the very powerful SSW winds created in the San Francisco Bay Area by a storm centered about 700 miles west of the Columbia River Mouth. What this image does not show is that…
by Mike Godsey Matt is right about the pattern of inbound storms. The water vapor satellite imagery and models over the past 24 hours show one of the most impressive cyclogenesis events in history off the California and Pacific Northwest coasts. At the surface, this first of a series of storms is 1500 miles wide…
by Mike Godsey Looking at today forecast the two sections that stand out are “ON and Off SW storm winds” and “Brief NW clearing winds hit after dark and fade before dawn Monday!” Let’s dissect each of those statements starting off when the disappointing lack of NW clearing winds Monday, Oct. 18 as the rain and…