Mike Godsey Forecast Decoder for March 12, 2024: Good but cloudy fishing conditions in the AM then, if the clouds clear as forecast, late foil to large kite winds strongest at Rasta Beach. Note: “El Norte” winds ramp up Saturday and peak Sunday Yep, the sunrise is beautiful but those heavy clouds often mean a weak…
VERY ROUGH DRAFT The topography of a Caribbean island and the strength of the trade winds can have a significant impact on each other. Here’s how: https://wx.iwindsurf.com/map#15.834,-76.217,6,297723 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1364032113006771 Trade winds:https://wx.iwindsurf.com/map#15.834,-76.217,6,297723 Island topography: The Venturi effect in general: The Venturi effect is a principle in fluid dynamics that states that when a fluid (like air) is…
by Mike Godsey Notice the low-pressure trough in the right side of the image. With low-pressure over almost all of the Sea of Cortez and no low-pressure south of Cabo the large scale pressure gradient is almost nil. This seems confirmed when you look at the satellite-derived winds of the ASCAT The next graphic shows…
Mild Local Sea Breezes in the low to mid-teens focus in the La Ventana area and weaker and/or less reliable for Los Barriles and Rasta Beach. Most of our wind today comes from blue sky heating in dead-end Los Planes Valley creating a modest local pressure gradient. Rasta Beach, further away from the valley often…
Up at ≈ 18,000 feet aloft (500 MB) a humongous atmospheric river stretches over 10,000 miles from Egypt to near Canada today. You can see this in this modeled imagery of the winds s at ≈ 18,000 feet aloft (500 MB). As this narrow band of strong winds travels across the warm Pacific it picks…
The La Ventana & Los Barriles launch site wind forecast for the current day can be found on iwindsurf.com or kitesurf.com. The bulk of the wind today comes as wind flows between a weak high-pressure west of Guerrero Negro, Baja Norte and low-pressure south of Cabo. 2. But looking at the 2 in the image…
The La Ventana & Los Barriles launch site wind forecast for the current day can be found on iwindsurf.com or kitesurf.com. There is more promise today as high pressure presses into the northern Four Corners region and the North Pacific High strengthens and pushes closer to Baja Norte. But clouds will be the wind decider today. …
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…
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…
The tiny village of La Ventana is known for its amazing Sea of Cortez sunrises framed between Isla Ceralvo and Punta Arena. But usually, the sunsets behind the mountains pale in comparison. But last night this “evil beauty” sunset appeared. The winter weather in southern Baja is supposed to be endless blue skies and calm…