Mike Godsey Forecast Decoder for March 12, 2024: Good but cloudy fishing conditions in the AM then, if the clouds clear as forecast, late foil to large kite winds strongest at Rasta Beach. Note: “El Norte” winds ramp up Saturday and peak Sunday Yep, the sunrise is beautiful but those heavy clouds often mean a weak…
Mike Godsey During El Niño years it is more common to have the clouds of the Sub-Tropical Jetstream over Baja Sur. While La Ventana often has nice sunrises these jet clouds This often create spectacular sunrises in the La Ventana area making the village a window to the eastern sunrise. Sometimes the clouds linger the…
Fprecast Decoder: Monday, March 11, 2024 The large-scale winds fade away today as the North Pacific High moves over the Sea of Cortez and the low-pressure south of Cabo disappears killing the wind most of the Sea of Cortez. Indeed if you look at all the global low-resolution models they are forecasting sub-teens for Baja’s…
Forecast Decoder by Mike Godsey: Yesterday, Matts’s forecast, somewhat cryptically, talked about an overly-friendly North Pacific High. Remember the old cliche about “Too much of a good thing”? Normally having a smallish winter-sized 1-2000 mile-wide North Pacific High near Baja is good for the Sea of Cortez winter winds. But as spring approaches and the…
VERY ROUGH DRAFT The topography of a Caribbean island and the strength of the trade winds can have a significant impact on each other. Here’s how: https://wx.iwindsurf.com/map#15.834,-76.217,6,297723 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1364032113006771 Trade winds:https://wx.iwindsurf.com/map#15.834,-76.217,6,297723 Island topography: The Venturi effect in general: The Venturi effect is a principle in fluid dynamics that states that when a fluid (like air) is…
by Mike Godsey Notice the low-pressure trough in the right side of the image. With low-pressure over almost all of the Sea of Cortez and no low-pressure south of Cabo the large scale pressure gradient is almost nil. This seems confirmed when you look at the satellite-derived winds of the ASCAT The next graphic shows…
Mike Godsey “A mighty tremor roused us from sleep at 3 pm in the SandDollar Condos. The ground vibrated beneath us, as colossal waves crashed against the shore. It was unmistakable – the reversal had finally come. Feb. 5, 2024” For starters I should mention that mild “Wind Reversals” can be a blessing since, as…
Mild Local Sea Breezes in the low to mid-teens focus in the La Ventana area and weaker and/or less reliable for Los Barriles and Rasta Beach. Most of our wind today comes from blue sky heating in dead-end Los Planes Valley creating a modest local pressure gradient. Rasta Beach, further away from the valley often…
In 1492, Christopher Columbus, driven by his ambition to chart a westward route to Asia, set sail from the Canary Islands with three ships. Relying on the steady easterly trade winds of the North Atlantic high-pressure system, his crew made landfall on October 12th on an island in the Bahamas. Though Columbus believed he had…
Several WeatherFlow-Tempest zoomable Model forecasts for the Caribbean for today can be found here: This first blog will cover some of the basic factors causing the Caribbean Trade winds. In future blogs I will be using the island of Bonaire to illustrate Caribbean wind patterns. Photo by Mike Godsey Today is a somewhat atypical winter day in the…