High pressure over the western USA sends moist air above the west coast. by Mike Godsey, mike@iwindsurf.com Several times each summer the exotic phrase “Monsoonal Clouds” appears in the forecast. For some of you the phrase is just greek for others it triggers vague memories of something to do with India. If you are a Vietnam…
…as the battered old North Pacific High merges with new North Pacific High. by Mike Godsey, mike@iwindsurf.com It has been a wild 9 days of unending SW flow and Sherman Island and East Bay winds such as we used to see a decade or two ago. And the Sherman Island wind distribution was much more…
North Pacific High’s north winds maintain an eddy. by Mike Godsey, mike@iwindsurf.com Welcome to July 1994! Like the last several centuries the San Francisco Bay Area is having the normal July SW flow with a deep marine layer! Today that moist chilly blanket is snugging over the hills of Herb Caen’s Bagdad-by-the-Bay. There are many causes of…
The NW winds RULE this afternoon! by Mike Godsey, mike@iwindsurf.com See the barely spinning 200 mile in diameter eddy NW of the Bay Area. The last several days this eddy was just west of the Bay Area. Since the winds are circulating counter-clockwise around the eddy we had SW flow ocean wind which favors Sherman Island and the East Bay ….
Surface eddy and SW flow for the Bay Area by Mike Godsey, mike@iwindsurf.com I will add more text to this blog later today but right now the wind calls so this has to be brief. Yesterday, July 9, the S. F. Bay Area saw strong SW flow that really jacked up the Sherman Island winds while messing…
Decreasing temps and increasing clouds marine layer and SW wind aloft. by Mike Godsey, mike@iwindsurf.com
How an upper ridge impacts Southern California, Gorge and Bay Area winds. by Mike Godsey, mike@iwindsurf.com In the first video we are looking at a model projection of the upper level winds at the 500mb level ( around ≈ 18,000 ft.) from Friday 28 through Monday. At the start of the video notice the very warm air (reddish…
So NW flow ramps up on our coast and the Peninsula. by Mike Godsey, mike@iwindsurf.com Every read the phrase “tomorrow the North Pacific High’s surface NW winds will slide up the coast from Southern California and focus on the Bay Area” and wondered how can wind blowing from the NW move to the north.? Well tomorrow, Saturday, this is…
So the endless Northern California NW ocean wind fades and SW flow and marine layer clouds ramp up in the Bay Area and Southern California by Mike Godsey, mike@iwindsurf.com In the previous video blog on Zonal Flow we saw why the Bay Area wind pattern and weather has been so stable the last 5 days. There has been nary a…
Why do the forecasts sometimes look almost exactly the same from day to day? by Mike Godsey, mike@iwindsurf.com You know all that geek talk about upper troughs and upper ridges? And how upper trough bring cooling, SW flow and a deeper marine layer while upper ridges bring warming and weaker winds? It is sort of…