Despite an El Nino, a weird winter and abnormally high sea temps the NPH is behaving normally today. by Mike Godsey, mike@iwindsurf.com Well this winter saw weird weather in windsurfing triangle from Maui to the Gorge to Baja. And the Bay Area was the epicenter of the weirdness. However today the North Pacific High is positioned in a good…
Why does the wind sometimes arrive early and other times later? by Mike Godsey, mike@iwindsurf.com In recent years is has become common to read about NE to NEE winds aloft over the Bay Area in the morning. Usually this observation is accompanied by a statement that the North Pacific High’s surface NW winds will be delayed or…
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NW winds fade on the California coast. by Mike Godsey Its that time of year. The average location of the NPH drops south of the Bay Area and focuses west of the Southern California coast. And in the coming weeks the NPH will continue to shrink and move further south. Sometimes it will move towards…
San Carlos, Baja Norte is center of the wind universe. by Mike Godsey, mike@iwindsurf.com Ever wondered where the North Pacific High goes to when it abandons the California coast in late fall? Sometimes it just disappears from the pacific but more often it moves closer to the equator. And at times it lurks near its winter vacation home…
So NW clearing winds between storms. by Mike Godsey, mike@iwindsurf.com As you know the waters between California and Hawaii are dominated by the clockwise winds of the North Pacific High most of the summer. But as winter approaches huge counter-clockwise spinning storm systems like the one you see in this video shove the NPH far to the south. And in this case hurricane…
Trade winds give way to Hurricane winds. by Mike Godsey, Hurricane Ana currently a modest hurricane SW of Hawaii should have at least 75 knot winds by this weekend. And it’s modeled trajectory has it coming right over Maui. The first video shows Ana’s current location while the second video shows Ana’s modeled location on…
NPH’s wind turn from NW to NNW and Bay Area winds weaken. Then southerly storm winds. by Mike Godsey, mike@iwindsurf.com At the beginning of the video notice the date of Oct 11 and how the North Pacific High dominates the lower 2/3 of the screen creating NW wind on the California coast. Then abruptly as the date changes to Oct….
We tend to think that strong things come in big packages but… by Mike Godsey, mike@iwindsurf.com Looking to the east in this video from Oct. 11, 2014 notice the North Pacific High. The NPH spans well over 3000 miles from the Oregon Border to pass Hawaii. But its clockwise spinning winds are maxing out at about 25 knots….