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West Coast Wind Blog: Baja Forecast Nov. 15, 2023. Shall we bet the forecast on a “Hole in One”?

The La Ventana & Los Barriles launch site wind forecast for the current day can be found on iwindsurf.com or kitesurf.com. Let’s talk clouds. If you are in the La Ventana area, first notice the thin line of puffy LOW clouds streaming over Isla Ceralvo (AKA Isla Jacques Cousteau). These clouds are good news since…

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West Coast Wind Blog: Early warning of inbound N. winds using our Baja, Rasta Beach/Kitesurfing Planet sensor.

Forecasts are great but it is always nice to have empirical confirmation of when the forecast winds will begin to build at the beaches. That is one reason we installed one of our Tempest sensors at the Kitesurfing Planet shop and restaurant at Rasta Beach north El Sargento. In this first image you can see…

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West Coast Wind Blog: Baja Forecast Nov. 7, a gamble lost.

Watch the ebb or flow of ephemeral fog at the Golden Gate or the rapid movements of puffball cumulus clouds during a summer day, and you quickly realize that forecasting cloud coverage is often a crap shoot. Clouds form and evaporate with random temperature changes, elevation changes, relative humidity, vertical movement, aerosols. Etc. But supercomputer…

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