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Very EARLY GUSTY low to mid 20’+ ENTIRE coast & Bay mid-Golden Gate south past 3rd. Ave. + Sherman, Rod & Gun. Bit weaker in Benicia and Alameda. 1- Beefy 2770 mile wide North Pacific High compacts isobars along West Coast from Pistol River to Baja so northerly ocean winds roar!2- This wind is accelerated…
It is unusual for my Baja forecast to mention a “Red Tide,” but a recent Facebook thread had folks worried about water contact, so I posted the following. As a long ago marine biologist who spent years in the Sea of Cortez I would guess it is Noctiluca scintillans. Noctiluca is a dinoflagellate, a type…
The NPH is often the Baja’s East Cape wind hero Can you see why a villain trumps the NPH today?
This year most of our wind on Baja’s East Cape has been a combo of mild local thermal winds and moderate large scale winds. In past decades most of that large scale winds originated in the 4-Corners region of the USA and roared down the Sea of Cortez with a N to NNE angle. That…
I am not forecasting today but there should be interesting winds. Cool dry strong El Norte winds to our north weaken in our area. But they may interact with moist warm southerly winds 9000 feet aloft. This happens as we begin a transition to southerly Sea of Cortez winds Saturday due to the Cut Off…
So far the Baja 2024-25 winter wind season has been a great one with moderate winds almost every day. But one expected factor in the large scale wind recipe has been missing. Yes, the expected La Niña has been missing from the pacific weather patterns. Meteorologists have been expecting La Niña for months but in the…
When a Cut-Off Low moves over Baja California during the winter, it can significantly impact surface winds and weather in the region. Here’s what typically happens: Cut-off lows are an upper low “cut off” from the main jet stream with upper winds spinning around the low-pressure center. Since they are no longer attached to the main…
Part 1 of this blog covered the basics of how low-pressure south to southeast of Cabo San Lucas at the tip of Baja often impacts the winter winds in the Sea of Cortez. In that blog this graphic showing how that low-pressure can produce winds even when the big wind machines, the NPH and the…
It is Baja meteorology 101 gospel that the strongest winter Sea of Cortez winds are created by high pressure in the USA’s 4-Corners region. You can see this high-pressure area in the circle of white isobar lines in this first image. Notice how those lines get closer together over the Sea of Cortez. The closer…