But be extra nice since there is a thread of hope! Bottom Line: Local easterly thermals sub to low-teens. Baja Sur Pacific side has faint winds but strong Punta San Carlos, Baja Norte winds. A Xmas story: Uh oh! Someone messed up Santa’s Naughty or Nice equation. It was probably a windsurfer, since for Xmas their wind…
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To me Facebook has only 2 uses. One is to communicate with friends is villages where they don’t have regular e-mail. The other use is to keep up with the windsurfing/kiting/winging communities in the San Francisco Bay Area and in Baja where I forecast. This collage of Facebook messages illustrate this second use:
Forecast Jargon Decoder: November 3, 2024 UP AND DOWN very strong NW winds on the COAST. Bay has On and Off NORTH winds sub-teens to mid 20’s strongest Pt. Isabel, Coyote and 3rd. Ave. BAJA human forecasts have started! Note: Last day of the forecast season! Go Baja! My goal each year is for the Windy…
You know the old aphorism “If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck…) Well sometimes it isn’t a duck. From the perspective of the La Ventana beaches it would appear that Sunday, Monday and today, Wednesday, we are having classic El Norte winds roaring down the Sea of Cortez. As you old time…
Preamble: Since the Bodega ocean buoy is NW 23g29, while the 449Hz profiler has average winds of 35 just aloft and my beloved Pt. Reyes is 23g3 I best will leave well enough alone: Sunday forecast: Powerful NW ocean winds obliterated the eddy and southerly coast winds as a massive, 3100 mile-wide North Pacific High…
Forecast Jargon Decoder: August 3, 2024 A broad streamer of dense low fog blankets the coast and Central Bay, but it shrinks to a narrow steamer that only impacts the Crissy winds. A rainy Gulf of Alaska storm crushes the North Pacific High’s surface NW winds against the west coast. So the NW ocean winds…
Forecast Jargon Decoder: Wednesday, July 3, 2024 BELOW the heat bubble created by a historic lingering heat wave, a tiny eddy off San Francisco sends a narrow finger of up and down upper-teens to low 20’s wind from mid Golden Gate to Brooks Island & Larkspur and maybe 3rd. Ave. Channel. Meanwhile, Arroyo, Pismo and…
Forecast Jargon Decoder: June 30, 2024 It’s a fun day to arrive at Ocean Beach near dawn and watch the SSW eddy winds blow apart as big NW white caps reach the sand by 1 p.m. Ohh! Be sure to bring your kite! Expect upper-teens to mid 20’s winds on the ENTIRE coast, Crissy beach,…
Forecast Jargon Decoder: June 29, 2024 Unsettled upper-teens to low 20’s winds focus in the mid Golden Gate to Pt. Isabel ton near Pt. Isabel to mid San Pablo Bay. Meanwhile, upper-teens winds are unsteady in the 3rd. Ave. Channel and especially near the launch sites late. This pattern develops as: 1. The North Pacific…