by Mike Godsey, Link to daily Baja forecast Mild wind set up today as bullets 1-5 show in the image below. But more importantly these 2 photos from last night and dawn today remind us there is more to life in La Ventana than wind. But look carefully in the upper left corner between Eureka,…
by Mike Godsey Recently the Weatherflow iwindsurf.com and ikitesurf.com forecasts and our internal Slack channel have seen a lot of chatter about the very weird weather pattern from today, Thursday, Sept 16 to Sunday, Sept 19. During that time period, we make a rapid transition from a… Southerly eddy winds on the Northern California coast….
by Mike Godsey Have you noticed? The NW ocean winds are becoming more common this late summer into fall for Southern California and the San Francisco Bay Area? While the Columbia Rivers winds are a mere shadow of their summertime strength. So what causes these seasonal changes in the winds? The North Pacific High, a…
by Matt Souders & Mike Godsey At this point, you are probably wondering about the thick haze every morning that has plagued the Gorge and much of the Pacific Northwest. It barely has a hint of the typical brownish color of wildfire smoke nor does it have the smell of smoke. And unlike smoke, it…
by Mike Godsey, Indecisiveness I have inserted my forecast for today June 11 in this image so that you can see the indecisiveness in my forecast. The reason for this is that the San Francisco Bay Area is right intersection between 2 massive weather systems. First let’s take a close up view first to see the forecasting…
Yesterday, March 22, saw strong winds in the El Sargento to Los Barriles area. These wind developed as the North Pacific High created a solid pressure gradient down the length of the Sea of Cortez. Today the North Pacific High is in the same location and same strength and continues to send strong northerly wind…
WeatherFlow’s Pro Forecasts are starting back up around the country and we are happy to announce that we are adding several new regions to the lineup! WeatherFlow will now be providing expert weather prediction for Texas, focusing on the coastal areas of South Padre Island, Corpus Christi, and Houston/Galveston, but to include other areas, such…
by Mike Godsey, mike@iwindsurf.com & Matt Sounders A few days ago I wrote a blog about the strange Cut-Off Low at ≈ 18,000 ft. feet between Hawaii and Baja that was tracking towards San Francisco where it would bring epic winds. Then how the Cut-Off Low would create explosive winds for the Gorge First –…
by Mike Godsey, mikeATiwindsurf.com Did you notice fast the sky changed today from crystal blue to cloudy? That event is something we have been forecasting for days. Clearly, something is about to happen. Remember the old days when it seemed that wind was just about the pressure gradient? And while the forecasts were crappy more…
by Meteorologist Kerry Anderson, Video and photography by Taro Amano. Last night I stood on the sand at Zuma Beach and witnessed the greatest light show I have seen (sorry Disney, nature trumps anything you can produce). The combination of a full moon and light eddy circulation made for perfect conditions to view bioluminescent algae…