Day and night southerly ocean winds rule! by Mike Godsey, mike@iwindsurf.com Update at 5PM Saturday June 2: Here is a satellite animation of the huge eddy I forecast when I did the blog below Thursday evening. Thursday May 30: See the sensor in my banner image above? That is our San Pablo Bay Nav. Aid sensor and it…
Too much of a good thing! by Mike Godsey, mike AT iwindsurf.com Doesn’t it drive you crazy when the evening forecast is for low 20’s dawn wind at Sherman Island and then the 7AM forecast and the wind graphs shows weaker winds? Last night Kerry forecast low 20’s morning winds for Sherman Island and then…
Well… only if it is in the right place. by Mike Godsey, mike AT iwindsurf.com Up at ≈ 18,000 ft. feet a massive near record upper high pressure is expanding from Texas towards Southern California. Subsiding, descending, air from this high will compress and heat the air in the Great Basin & Southern California…
Today an eddy dominates Southern California and tomorrow the Bay Area winds. Why? Upper level winds! by Mike Godsey, mike AT iwindsurf.com Imagery and text coming for Bay Area and Southern California. Turbines will be spinning to southerly winds in the interior of both the Bay Area and Southern California as upper level winds in the 5000′ to…
I was hoping no one would ask that question… by Mike Godsey, mike at iwindsurf.com Posted: 09 Jun 2016 17:35 U2U2U2 wrote: I’m not a meteorologist . Please explain why/ how wind at 18,000 feet effects the ground wind..? Hi U2U2U2, I was hoping no one would ask that question since a simplified answer would take…
This Cut-Off Low spawns a surface storm that shoves the North Pacific High’s winds to the Northern California coast. by Mike Godsey Recent days have seen light winds at most sites in the Bay Area as well as clouds and unsettled weather. This has been the result of the Cut-Off Low at ≈ 18,000 ft….
The answer is way aloft! by Mike Godsey In yesterday’s blog I talked about why I expected strong NW wind on the Northern California coast today as the North Pacific High was nudged closer to the California coast. At the time I suggested that the winds might be unreliable at some sites and today I added…
Passing upper low bumps NPH towards the west coast so NW winds rip! by Mike Godsey The California coast has seen several days of relatively mild winds as the North Pacific High has held a ridge towards the Pacific Northwest. This tends to angle the NPH away from the coast, make the ocean winds NNW and…
Early arrival of summer type dense marine layer. by Mike Godsey Dawn today in coastal Southern California or S. F. Bay Area found dense fog almost to the surface. These type of marine layer clouds are usually typical of June Gloom and their early arrival is triggered in part by the unusually warm pacific waters this…
Old Cut-Off Low lows and yet another evolves north of Hawaii. by Mike Godsey I will be adding more text to this animation. Each shift in this animation is a new day at ≈ 18,000 ft. The counter-clockwise spinning mass you see mid animation is the Cut-Off Low that is spoiling California wind and…