Today’s Forecast Jargon Decoder: The entire forecast for the current day can be found on iwindsurf.com or kitesurf.com. Decoder blogs are designed to help you visualize what the terms we use in the forecast. Today our long run of moderate El Norte wind continues today for the Rasta Beach, La Ventana and Los Barriles zone….
Up at ≈ 18,000 feet aloft (500 MB) a humongous atmospheric river stretches over 10,000 miles from Egypt to near Canada today. You can see this in this modeled imagery of the winds s at ≈ 18,000 feet aloft (500 MB). As this narrow band of strong winds travels across the warm Pacific it picks…
Todays Forecast Decoder: The entire forecast for the current day can be found on iwindsurf.com or kitesurf.com. wx.iwindsurf.com/proforecast/56 The nagging clouds disappear as the North Pacific High and the upper trough move eastward and stop steering clouds our way. Note how the models. had heavy clouds yesterday but much sparser clouds today and almost no…
Back in beach Meteorology 101 you probably learned that wind is created as air moves from high-pressure towards low-pressure. Every sunny day at our beaches you can see and feel this happen as the Coastal Valleys heat and mild winds ramp up. But these local scale winds are much weaker than the strong winds created…
Forecast Decoder: The North Pacific High is slowly gathering its strength west of Baja and the Pacific side sees mid-teens NW wind today. A bit of that wind reaches the Sea of Cortez as NNW wind that barely reaches the sand. The model output suggests cloud coverage all day but in the satellite imagery, I…
WeatherFlow-Tempest, the creator of ikitesurf.com, iwindsurf.com, sailflow.com etc. has setup a virtual AI bouy for the waters just off La Ventana. Artificial Intelligence Buoys, or AIBs, are simulated stations that use current and historical data from nearby sensors to provide wind reports at a location where sensors do not exist. AIBs are typically generated at…
In today’s forecast, there is mention of the Sea of Cortez wind from the North Pacific High being a bit NNW. This wind direction is side-shore to most of our coastline, which weakens the wind due to friction with the hills and bluffs. To get that wind to curve into a more favorable N to…
The La Ventana & Los Barriles launch site wind forecast for the current day can be found on iwindsurf.com or kitesurf.com. El Norte no mas. Weak local sea-breezes only. Alas, all good things must come to an end, even in paradise. High pressure formerly over the Four Corners heads out into the Central Plains states…
The La Ventana & Los Barriles launch site wind forecast for the current day can be found on iwindsurf.com or kitesurf.com. The bulk of the wind today comes as wind flows between a weak high-pressure west of Guerrero Negro, Baja Norte and low-pressure south of Cabo. 2. But looking at the 2 in the image…
It has been a dreary day week before Xmas so I thought I might be a good idea to bring some holiday cheer with photos from past Baja holidays. But for all you kids at heart… there is a Christmas present for you at the bottom of this page from the elves at our Weatherflow…