Have you ever wondered why Baja’s Sea of Cortez only has weak southerly winds in the Summer while the rest of North America is having its peak kiting, winging and windsurfing season? And why does the Sea of Cortez have its strongest winds in the winter when the rest of North America only has sporadic…
This winter we have seen the third year of a La Niña climate pattern. Indirectly this has often caused the average size and location of the North Pacific High to be atypical. Much of the winter the NPH has been larger, further northward and closer to Baja California than average. This first image shows the…
Today’s mild winds in the El Sargentoto Los Barriles corridor are due to a Cut-Off upper low in the upper-level winds that circulate around the world from mostly west to mostly east. Normally these winds loop North and south as they travel steering the surface weather systems and surface winds. Occasionally one of the southward-extending…
It was a dismal wet day for El Sargento, La Ventana and Los Barriles wind wise. This satellite imagery at 5:30 PM yesterday Jan. 31, 2023, shows that wind-killing cloud streamer of the subtropical jet stream.
In the image below note the North Pacific centered off the Oregon, USA coast and extending into Baja waters. Also, notice how its winds are far from us. Meanwhile, Great Basin high pressure is centered over Columbia River Basin in the USA. Both are making lots of wind but that wind is about 1000 miles…
See the image below: Our large-scale (synoptic in geek talk) wind machines take a much-needed vacation today. 1. & 2: Both the North Pacific High and the Great Basin High Pressure drift towards the USA’s Pacific Northwest and send weak wind to La Ventana and Los Barriles. 3 & 4: They do send moderate winds…
This, like last year, has been a great season with mild to moderate wind days most of the time. But you will hear the old-timers, especially windsurfers, grumbling about the lack of big El Norte days that used to be the wind signature of La Ventana and Los Barriles in past decades. Several times each…
Take a look at my banner photo from my house last year. Notice the near glassy waters near the beach much like today but with low swell. Now notice that dark line. That is called a local sea breeze front. It is the point there the warm air rising from the Los Planes Valley cools…
The main wind machine for the East Cape wind capitals of Los Barriles and La Ventana are a combo of NNE El Norte winds from the Great Basin + local sea breezes genterated by low pressure in our coastal valleys. But in La Niña years the North Pacific High frequently moves close enough to Baja…
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