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West Coast Wind Blog: Tropical Storm Kristy helps produce early season Northerly winds in the Sea of Cortez. But…

You know the old aphorism “If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck…) Well sometimes it isn’t a duck. From the perspective of the La Ventana beaches it would appear that Sunday, Monday and today, Wednesday, we are having classic El Norte winds roaring down the Sea of Cortez. As you old time…

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West Coast Wind Blog: How Coast Range Gaps and Central Valley pressure gradients shape San Francisco winds

Forecast Jargon Decoder: August 3, 2024 A broad streamer of dense low fog blankets the coast and Central Bay, but it shrinks to a narrow steamer that only impacts the Crissy winds. A rainy Gulf of Alaska storm crushes the North Pacific High’s surface NW winds against the west coast. So the NW ocean winds…

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West Coast Wind Blog: Upper-level events bring on lingering heat wave impacting California winds

Forecast Jargon Decoder: Wednesday, July 3, 2024 BELOW the heat bubble created by a historic lingering heat wave, a tiny eddy off San Francisco sends a narrow finger of up and down upper-teens to low 20’s wind from mid Golden Gate to Brooks Island & Larkspur and maybe 3rd. Ave. Channel. Meanwhile, Arroyo, Pismo and…

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West Coast Wind Blog: Part 1, surface causes of lingering early season eddy off San Francisco.

Mike Godsey Forecast Jargon Decoder: Wednesday, May 15, 2024 Despite the deep fog at 7 AM, the winds are already ripping in the SW-facing gaps in the Coast Range and at Point Blunt, Benicia, and Sherman Island. If you glance at a low-resolution model of the Pacific Ocean winds, you might expect strong NW winds…

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