by Mike Godsey, mike@iwindsurf.com The last few days have seen barely a trace of El Norte winds over the Sea of Cortez. But El Sargento, La Ventana and to a lesser extent still can see mild local sea breezes if there is enough blue sky to heat the inland valleys. Unfortunately, yesterday Nov. 13 saw…
by Mike Godsey, mikeATiwindsurf.com At the end of last season Ben installed a new sensor at Ventana Windsports. We did this because the old sensor at Baja Joe’s is sometimes in a partial wind shadow. Longtime Weatherflow customer John S. has installed a sensor on the Campground beach that covers that area nicely. In recent…
by Mike Godsey, Mike AT iwindsurf.com About 25 years ago, when the first windsurfers “discovered” La Ventana, “Weather Man” Tom and I started studying Baja winds using the daily data collection form you see in this first image. Since then my main goal was to figure out what caused the La Ventana and Los Barriles,…
by Mike Godsey mike@ikitesurf.com, Photos & Videos Did you notice how the El Norte this morning forecast upper-teens to low 20’s with periods much stronger especially outside? The baseline for our winds was relatively strong El Norte winds from the 4 corners with a bit of help from the North Pacific High and our local…
I am sure when you saw my forecast days ago for big winds starting early in the morning of Thursday, Dec. 7 you were skeptical. After all the forecasts are often off on even weak thermal wind days so how could a big wind forecast days in advance be taken seriously. But paradoxically large scale,…
by Mike Godsey, iwindsurf.com/ikitesurf.com Weatheflow.com So for days I have been saying the wind drought will begin to end Wednesday Feb. 6 and really end with a bang Thursday. This brief blog shows you the big picture behind this event. Remeber that wind is always produced by a pressure gradient. At the most local level…
Daily human La Ventana & Los Barriles forecast: Sunday, December 30, 2018 by Mike Godsey : Gorge & Baja photos & videos ,ikiteesurf.com/iwindsurf.com, mikeATiwindsurf.com In this image notice the isobar lines concentrate around the high-pressure zone in the northern Great Basin. Also notice how a few of those isobars are over the northern portion of Baja. The El Norte winds will…
by Mike Godsey : Gorge & Baja photos & videos ikitesurf.com/iwindsurf.com, mikeATiwindsurf.com Daily human La Ventana & Los Barriles forecast. Today we have a solid high pressure in the Great Basin as you can see by the isobars around the orange area in the image. There is also a low pressure trough near tip of Baja. This combo is…
High pressure builds so stronger wind! by Mike Godsey : Gorge & Baja photos & videos ikitesurf.com/iwindsurf.com, mikeATiwindsurf.com Daily human La Ventana & Los Barriles forecast. Tuesday saw solid wind but today we should see earlier and stronger winds. This animation starts with the setup Tuesday. Notice the North Pacific High in red which indicates higher pressure. Notice the lobe or…
by Mike Godsey, iwindsurf.com/ikitesurf.com Weatheflow.com Mail: mikeATwindsurf.com Sunday and especially Monday have wind potential with building high pressure in the Great Basin. However, coaxing the El Norte wind in the middle of the Sea of Cortez and getting the local thermal winds to jump start requires inland heating. And that, in turn, needs lots of sun. Unfortunately, the high clouds look like they will be over…