Author: Mike Godsey

West Coast Wind Blog: Baja winds – role of Great Basin high versus low pressure south of Cabo.

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….

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West Coast Wind Blog: How strong “El Norte” winds bring an end to Baja’s wind drought.

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…

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West Coast Wind Blog: What does the wind drought in Baja have to do with the frigid temperatures in the USA and Canada?

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…

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West Coast Wind Blog: Baja Artificial Intelligence Buoy

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…

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West Coast Wind Blog: Images of past Baja Christmas days. Open your present at the bottom of this page!!!

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…

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