by Mike Godsey, mikeATiwindsurf.com Anytime you read in the forecast about the North Pacific High pushing a ridge into California north of Pismo you are likely to also read about NNW ocean winds along the Central California coast. And also a mention of northerly wind coming over the ridges and canyons in the area from…
The prevailing ocean winds in the San Francisco Bay Area from spring to fall are usually NW. True the Bay Area gets southerly storm winds at times but that is usually during the winter and early spring. And there are also WSW summer winds. But those winds are usually caused by northerly winds curving inside…
Winter of 2019-2020 vs. the NPH vs the unusual 4 corners high pressure. When it comes to mild winds in the mid to weak upper-teens wind Baja’s East Cape has several wind machines. These include 1. the mild local sea breezes created by the inland valleys. and 2. The mesoscale winds from the cooler Sea…
by Mike Godsey, mikeATwindsurf.com Part ONE: Applied Meteorology in the times of COVID To reduce the risk of people infected with SARS-CoV-2 shedding the virus in a clinic or hospital most facilities have set outside tents for initial screening of patients who may be positive. On high wind days in the Gorge these tents were…
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by Mike Godsey, mikeATiwindsurf.com Usually, in March we have NW wind clearing winds after a storm. But this storm will seem like it will go on for days. The low pressure of storm system is normally steered from west to east by the upper-level troughs and ridges at the 500mb level at ≈ 18,000 ft….
by Mike Godsey, mikeATiwindsurf.com Today’s forecast winds hinge on the holes you see in the satellite imagery below coming over the inland valleys so that heating can produce a local pressure gradient to cause the slightly offshore NNW winds to curve into the beaches.
by Mike Godsey, mikeATiwindsurf.com It is the gospel (Ecclesiastes 1:14) that after an early spring/late winter storm we see more blue skies and NW clearing winds along the California coast to delight wind Hungary kiters and windsurfers. This model output below for Friday, March 13 shows why we will not see much NW wind for a while….
by Mike Godsey In normal years the bulk of the strong wind at the kite and windsurf sites in the Los Barriles and La Ventana areas comes from high pressure in the Great Basin area of the USA. However, the 2019-2020 winter season has seen lots of days when an unusually robust North Pacific High…
by Mike Godsey, mikeATiwindsurf.com Pretty good wind quality for La Ventana today as the morning clouds in far Los Planes Valley cleared allowoing the local pressure gradient to climb helping the sea breezes and encouraging the El Norte winds to reach the beach. You can see this clearly in the animation today Dec. 21! But notice…