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…
So strong NW wind in the Bay Area coast. by Mike Godsey, mike@iwindsurf.com
Mild warm up brings improved local sea breezes Friday by Mike Godsey, mike@iwindsurf.com You often see the words “Upper level ridge brings warming to Southern California so the inland valleys warm and the pressure gradient ramps up” And probably the geek Upper level ridge part of that statement puzzles you. So what is an upper level ridge? Looking at…
The North Pacific High returns! by Mike Godsey, mike@iwindsurf.com For 8 days my guesstimate on the blogs and extended forecast has been that the EDDY pattern and SW flow that has ruled the Bay Area wind for many days would end tomorrow June 11. A casual look, (I am on vacation right now), at…