Back in beach Meteorology 101 you probably learned that wind is created as air moves from high-pressure towards low-pressure. Every sunny day at our beaches you can see and feel this happen as the Coastal Valleys heat and mild winds ramp up. But these local scale winds are much weaker than the strong winds created…
Forecast Decoder: The North Pacific High is slowly gathering its strength west of Baja and the Pacific side sees mid-teens NW wind today. A bit of that wind reaches the Sea of Cortez as NNW wind that barely reaches the sand. The model output suggests cloud coverage all day but in the satellite imagery, I…
WeatherFlow-Tempest, the creator of ikitesurf.com, iwindsurf.com, sailflow.com etc. has setup a virtual AI bouy for the waters just off La Ventana. Artificial Intelligence Buoys, or AIBs, are simulated stations that use current and historical data from nearby sensors to provide wind reports at a location where sensors do not exist. AIBs are typically generated at…
The La Ventana & Los Barriles launch site wind forecast for the current day can be found on iwindsurf.com or kitesurf.com. El Norte no mas. Weak local sea-breezes only. Alas, all good things must come to an end, even in paradise. High pressure formerly over the Four Corners heads out into the Central Plains states…
It has been a dreary day week before Xmas so I thought I might be a good idea to bring some holiday cheer with photos from past Baja holidays. But for all you kids at heart… there is a Christmas present for you at the bottom of this page from the elves at our Weatherflow…
The La Ventana & Los Barriles launch site wind forecast for the current day can be found on iwindsurf.com or kitesurf.com. Typically El Niño years are bad for La Ventana and Los Barriles winds. So far this season we have had good winds but this week El Niño is weakening out winds. Today we are…
The La Ventana & Los Barriles launch site wind forecast for the current day can be found on iwindsurf.com or kitesurf.com. The clouds you see today will vary in thickness the next several days. Complete blue skies arrive Tuesday. Between today and Tuesday there will be days of moderate winds but sometimes the clouds will…
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. 19, 2023 Those picturesque reflections of high clouds on the glassy Sea of Cortez won’t last. Heavier clouds roll in tomorrow, bringing an unfortunate lull in the wind. The reason?…
The La Ventana, El Sargento & Los Barriles launch site forecast for the current day can be found on iwindsurf.com or kitesurf.com. Forecast Jargon Decoder, Dec. 13, 2023 Today’s forecast: In this second image, notice the dreaded 3500-mile-long Sub Tropical Jet Stream cloud mass streaming from the SW over Baja’s East Cape. At dawn today,…
Since this is an El Niño year the wind-killing Sub-Tropical Jetstream is much more likely to come over Baja’s East Cape and kill the winds. So far we have been lucky but today the Sub-Tropical Jetstream is close enough that I thought you would like to see the wind-killing bullet that missed us. Take a…