North Pacific High makes an early move to its summer home. But is should return, briefly…… by Mike Godsey, mike@iwindsurf.com Every spring the North Pacific High slowly moves up the coast from west of Baja ending up west of the Pacific Northwest. Of course it gets bumped southward with most storms or upper troughs passing to the north. But…
Cut-Off Low may bring a marine surge one day early. by Mike Godsey, mike@iwindsurf.com Hi Gang, I just updated the videos below since it is looking more and more likely that a marine surge is developing just south of the Golden Gate. Look at second video! Don’t you just hate it when forecasts like mine…
by WeatherFlow meteorologist Shea Gibson Upon doing the forecast in the AM 6/6/14, I noticed what looked similar to a derecho having larger scale rotation. Overnight warm front activity/warm air advection just south of an EAST-WEST stationary boundary typically sparks clusters of storms but usually not in this pattern. In fact, this MCV managed…
Where does the eddy come from? by Mike Godsey, mike@iwindsurf.com If your favorite sites are north of the Bay Bridge the Golden Gate Eddy is your wind friend. While if you are a coast or Peninsula person you probably shudder when you see mention of the eddy in the forecast. So where does the Golden Gate Eddy come from…
Watch the eddy rule in the morning to mid afternoon then in 2nd video watch if for dawn until its DEATH! by Mike Godsey, mike@iwindsurf.com This video is from dawn today to 11AM. Look for the counter-clockwise spinning motion in the fog just west of the Golden Gate between Pt. Reyes and around Pillar Pt.. First video: Notice…
Watch the eddies writing in the fog pouring into the Bay Area. by Mike Godsey, mike@iwindsurf.com If you are a radiologist you will quickly find the counter-clockwise spinning eddy in the X-ray like satellite imagery from 8AM this morning. For the rest of us the eddy is the stirred up pattern in the fog just west of the Golden…
Watch as Amanda sucks in wind from the NPH and SPH by Mike Godsey, mike@iwindsurf.com
Watch isobars dance as they create the Bay Area NW wind this afternoon. by Mike Godsey, mike@iwindsurf.com You hear about isobars all time in the forecasts along the west coast and you have long since figured out that the more isobars the stronger wind. But exactly what are isobars and what is their role in the Bay Area…
Atypical genesis and death of Golden Gate eddy partially spoils forecast. by Mike Godsey, mike@iwindsurf.com 8 years ago I did not know the Golden Gate eddy existed and and it was never mentioned in the NWS discussions or in the literature. (So I took the liberty of naming it the Golden Gate eddy, if I was more…
When it comes to Trade Winds the winds angle is everything. by Mike Godsey, mike@iwindsurf.com So here are some of the many forum posts about the relative lack of trade winds in Hawaii. Read, weep and then scroll below to see what happened. 3.7_Maui Joined: 20 Jul 2012 Posts: 18 Posted: 18 May 2014 22:01 …