by Mike Godsey mike@ikitesurf.com, Photos & Videos Did you notice how the El Norte this morning forecast upper-teens to low 20’s with periods much stronger especially outside? The baseline for our winds was relatively strong El Norte winds from the 4 corners with a bit of help from the North Pacific High and our local…
by Mike Godsey, mike@iwindsurf.com For more photos from Baja and the west coast click this link. Sometimes I just have to put weasel words in the forecast even when almoat everything looks promising in the early morning. In today’s forecast, Thursday, February 21, 2019, those weasel words were “If heavy clouds to the west do…
by Mike Godsey, Mike AT ikitesurf.com If you ply the waters of the west coast of the USA from The Gorge to Punta San Carlos, Baja Norte you know the winds of the North Pacific High intimately since they are the critical part of your summer wind machine. So you already know all about the…
by Mike Godsey, mike AT kitesurf.com Part ONE: Today, Sunday, February 17, 2019 the North Pacific High is pumping wind into the Sea of Cortez from the Pacific side of Baja. You can see this happening in Part 2 of this blog below. Since this Pacific wind is largely NW it arrives as side-offshore wind…
by Mike Godsey, mikeATiwindsurf.com I hope this is not your first year kiting or windsurfing on Baja’s East Cape. If it is your first year don’t let first impressions count much in thinking about a return visit. Normally heavy rains, frequent heavy clouds, shifty up and down winds are uncommon during the winter. Rather the…
by Mike Godsey, iwindsurf.com/ikitesurf.com Weatheflow.com So for days I have been saying the wind drought will begin to end Wednesday Feb. 6 and really end with a bang Thursday. This brief blog shows you the big picture behind this event. Remeber that wind is always produced by a pressure gradient. At the most local level…
Daily human La Ventana & Los Barriles forecast: Sunday, December 30, 2018 by Mike Godsey : Gorge & Baja photos & videos ,ikiteesurf.com/iwindsurf.com, mikeATiwindsurf.com In this image notice the isobar lines concentrate around the high-pressure zone in the northern Great Basin. Also notice how a few of those isobars are over the northern portion of Baja. The El Norte winds will…
Daily human La Ventana & Los Barriles forecast: Sunday, December 30, 2018 by Mike Godsey : Gorge & Baja photos & videos ,ikiteesurf.com/iwindsurf.com, mikeATiwindsurf.com The high pressure over the Great Basin weakens Sunday and moves eastward so the El Norte winds fade some. At the same on the Pacific side of Baja the North Pacific High builds and NW winds run…
Daily human La Ventana & Los Barriles forecast. by Mike Godsey : Gorge & Baja photos & videos ikitesurf.com/iwindsurf.com, mikeATiwindsurf.com UPDATED immage at 9:40 AM The long promised El Norte winds are hitting low 20’s outside at dawn today but the also promised clouds are an issue. The satellite imagery shows that the high subtropical jet stream clouds are…
Daily human La Ventana & Los Barriles forecast. by Mike Godsey : Gorge & Baja photos & videos ikitesurf.com/iwindsurf.com, mikeATiwindsurf.com Nice blue skies yesterday and today but looking at the image below you can see in yellow and orange the moisture and clouds of the subtropical jet stream above 10,000 ft. This mass of water vapor is streaming from…