This is the look of the Coast today as fog and overcast envelops the beaches, with cool southerlies, seen in this visible satellite image. See the graph of southerlies from Pacific City: Lincoln City Roads End Live Cam, cloudy sky and waves. Meanwhile the upper low to the south, in Nevada, throws high clouds…
Well, the NW wind made a weak cameo appearance today as forecast. But if SW flow is not to your taste don’t get your hopes up for tomorrow. This summer the North Pacific High’s surface NW winds have been battered by Cut-Off Lows, Golden Gate eddies, Upper troughs and most recently by huge 850 mb…
What to do when the models take a personal day??? Regarding the SE Coast Saturday/Sunday July 5th and 6th Tim Kent 7/30/14 Preface this discussion with the fact that weather forecast models are a wonderful tool that at least on the East Coast are somewhat rarely so terribly wrong that you cannot even yield useful…
Quite common in the early summer setups are these high pressure surface ridges that just… barely…nudge…. off.. the… coast. People don’t believe me when I say yes there are situations with Rhode Island will see stronger winds than Cape Cod, but days like this is one of those situations. Here is the general Sea…
Synoptic Setup 5/4/14 High pressure centered over the northern Gulf of Mexico. Cold front departing well offshore. Synoptic gradient flow is fairly zonal W/WNW. Air in place over the region is unseasonably dry. Strong surface heating produced 90F temps inland. Observations at fort sumter Classic afternoon reversal of synoptic offshore flow was correctly…
The cold water temps of this Spring are producing quite a strong engine for thermal assisted sea breezes. One area the typically is a firecracker for the sea breezes is the inner passages for Rhode Island. Today I suspected this might happen but I shied away from it due to the large amount…
Early Spring Fog/Marine Layering along the SC coast Tim Kent 3/23 (sorry in advance for strange layout of text captions) First Visible Image of the Day Low Level fog clearly visible along the coast below some upper level cloud streaks Synoptic Setup for the day Zonal flow (Westerlys) with High pressure over the NE GOM…