Mike Godsey “There is no North Pacific High this spring” (heard on the beach at Crissy Field) Are you are an avid West Coast surfer, kiteboarder, windsurfer, winger or sailor or just love to watch huge surf? Then you love the NW clearing winds and waves from the North Pacific High that commonly follow a…
by Mike Godsey Forecast Jargon Docoder: Thursday, April 4, 2024 A 2800-mile-wide North Pacific High spans the waters from the Gulf of Alaska to near the tip of Baja so very strong NNW ocean winds are blasting past of the Farallon Islands (18 miles west Gate). Unfortunately, a tiny 150-mile-wide wide low-pressure area loiters all…
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…