by Mike Godsey, mikeATiwindsurf.com I hope this is not your first year kiting or windsurfing on Baja’s East Cape. If it is your first year don’t let first impressions count much in thinking about a return visit. Normally heavy rains, frequent heavy clouds, shifty up and down winds are uncommon during the winter. Rather the…
As can see from the forecast headline screen shot the forecast for Saturday said mid to upper teens IF we got some holes in the heavy clouds otherwise the wind would stay way outside. Those winds seemed pretty likely at dawn and by noon I was chickening out on my forecast since the satellite image…
So how can we have 2 days with very strong El Norte winds on Feb. 7 and 8th then have Saturday Feb. 9 have such a weak wind forecast? Remember that weather generally moves from the west to the east. And on Saturday a strong low pressure storm system crashes into the Northern California to…
The wind situation looked pretty dismal but looking aloft or at the satellite imagery as clouds streamed overhead. Find Isla Cerralvo and then the curve of La Ventana Bay at the start of this Wednesday satellite video. You can see the massive clouds streaming from the SW. So why did I forecast up and down…
Today’s winds will be strong but may have a slight NNW direction. To get these winds to curve into La Ventana we need good heating in the Los Planes Valley. But this morning the high relatively heavy clouds streaming from the SW at ≈ 18,000 ft. from do not look promising in the satellite imagery…
Sometimes there is a stinger to strong wind that makes the experience less than perfect. Tomorrow that stinger will probably be sporadic weak WNW -NNW gusts that will try to push the favorable El Norte (North) winds away from shore. This first image from John S’s weather station at the north end of the La…
Daily human La Ventana & Los Barriles forecast: Sunday, December 30, 2018 by Mike Godsey : Gorge & Baja photos & videos ,ikiteesurf.com/iwindsurf.com, mikeATiwindsurf.com The high pressure over the Great Basin weakens Sunday and moves eastward so the El Norte winds fade some. At the same on the Pacific side of Baja the North Pacific High builds and NW winds run…
Daily human La Ventana & Los Barriles forecast. by Mike Godsey : Gorge & Baja photos & videos ikitesurf.com/iwindsurf.com, mikeATiwindsurf.com UPDATED immage at 9:40 AM The long promised El Norte winds are hitting low 20’s outside at dawn today but the also promised clouds are an issue. The satellite imagery shows that the high subtropical jet stream clouds are…
Daily human La Ventana & Los Barriles forecast. by Mike Godsey : Gorge & Baja photos & videos ikitesurf.com/iwindsurf.com, mikeATiwindsurf.com Nice blue skies yesterday and today but looking at the image below you can see in yellow and orange the moisture and clouds of the subtropical jet stream above 10,000 ft. This mass of water vapor is streaming from…
by Mike Godsey : Gorge & Baja photos & videos ikitesurf.com/iwindsurf.com, mikeATiwindsurf.com Daily human La Ventana & Los Barriles forecast. Unusual winds today as the North Pacific High’s surface NW winds rip down the California coast and the pacific Baja coast. A bit of this wind is rippling over the mountains of Baja and hitting the water outside and…