Author: Mike Godsey

West Coast Wind Blog: Dreaded Sub Tropical Jet Stream pounds the final nail into La Ventana’s wind coffin but makes for beautiful sunrises.

The La Ventana & Los Barriles launch site wind forecast for the current day can be found on iwindsurf.com or kitesurf.com. Forecast Jargon Decoder, Dec. 20, 2023 A 2500 hundred mile long mass of clouds far aloft is streaming from the WSW is over much of southern Baja today. This clouds mass is known as…

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West Coast Wind Blog: Forecast Jargon Decoder, La Ventana, East Wind, Dec. 12, 2023

The La Ventana & Los Barriles launch site wind forecast for the current day can be found on iwindsurf.com or kitesurf.com. Forecast: Muy tranquilo. Good Fishing then good Paragliding and decent foiling with big wings and skill for Rasta Beach. Note: During mild EASTERLY WINDS, the best paragliding is in the area in the Rasta Beach…

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WEST COAST WIND BLOG: FORECAST JARGON DECODER, SANTA ANA WINDS, PART 2, upper-level winds

The Southern California and Central California launch site wind forecast for the current day can be found on iwindsurf.com or kitesurf.com. We all know how Santa Ana winds localize and how they feel but what causes these winds? Generally, these winds are caused by a surface high-pressure area in the Great Basin. But what causes this high-pressure…

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WEST COAST WIND BLOG: FORECAST JARGON DECODER, Santa Ana winds, part 1

The Southern California and Central California launch site wind forecast for the current day can be found on iwindsurf.com or kitesurf.com. Notice the tiny 400-mile wide remanent of the North Pacific High centered 100 miles West of San Francisco that is shrinking fast. Note how most of its mass isbeing absorbed into a huge growing 1200-mile-wide high-pressure…

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