West Coast Wind Blog: How a heat dome impacts West Coast wind sports.
This graphic gives a simple overview of what a heat dome does to the winds at select wind sports venues on the West Coast.
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This graphic gives a simple overview of what a heat dome does to the winds at select wind sports venues on the West Coast.
The news is full of dire warnings of a “Heat Dome” over the western USA. You may know that that a heat dome traps hot air in like a lid, causing scorching temperatures. If, not you surely know that a heat dome spells misery. But exactly who does all this happen? And are “Heat Domes” becoming more…
E’nuf Said: Cause & Effect Click here for Cause and look below for Effect:
Forecast Jargon Decoder. Saturday, June 1, 2024 Ye Haw! Can you count to 7? It takes that many numbers to bring low to mid to upper 20’s+ winds to the entire coast and most of San Francisco as: 1. Overnight, the North Pacific High retracts the high-pressure ridge that caused the WSW coast eddy winds….
Forecast Jargon Decoder: Sunday, May 26, 2024 1. The North Pacific High pushes a ridge into far Northern California in the AM. 2. This brings a small lobe of low-pressure over the Golden Gate and there is an AM eddy and southerly coast winds. 3. Mid-morning the NPH ridge disappears as does the eddy and…
Thursday May 23, 2024 Todays forecast: Strong Gusty winds Coast, including OB and from Crissy to all Peninsula launch sites and outer waters + R&G and Sherman. The Bodega profiler shows 35 knot NW winds 200 meters aloft while Mt. Diablo is 28g34. This afternoon these winds blast to the surface due to: 1. A…
SFYC J/105 Invitational using sailflow.com 1 and 3 km WF-WRF model
Mike Godsey Hi Guys, I have spent hundreds of hours studying this issue by driving around the Peninsula especially the Half Moon Bay area. It is frustrating for me not to have a simple solution. Basic information: Unlike most Bay launch sites, the 3rd Ave. area is fed wind from 2 different gap areas in…
Mike Godsey Today we see a NW-WNW pattern with strong gusty winds focused on the coast, Anita Rock to Palo Alto and Tomales to Rod and Gun to Benicia. This blog helps you turn the forecast words into weather images. pattern is created by: 1. The center of the North Pacific High moves closer to…
Mike Godsey These photos from the Ocean Beach King of the Cove event on April 26, 2024, tell the wind story. But if you need convincing that this was an epic day, look at the powerful winds at almost every WeatherFlow-Tempest shoreline sensor in the San Francisco Bay Area. The Red circles show sites with…