Forecast Jargon Decoder. Saturday, June 1, 2024 Ye Haw! Can you count to 7? It takes that many numbers to bring low to mid to upper 20’s+ winds to the entire coast and most of San Francisco as: 1. Overnight, the North Pacific High retracts the high-pressure ridge that caused the WSW coast eddy winds….
Thursday May 23, 2024 Todays forecast: Strong Gusty winds Coast, including OB and from Crissy to all Peninsula launch sites and outer waters + R&G and Sherman. The Bodega profiler shows 35 knot NW winds 200 meters aloft while Mt. Diablo is 28g34. This afternoon these winds blast to the surface due to: 1. A…
Mike Godsey Forecast Jargon Decoder: Wednesday, May 15, 2024 Despite the deep fog at 7 AM, the winds are already ripping in the SW-facing gaps in the Coast Range and at Point Blunt, Benicia, and Sherman Island. If you glance at a low-resolution model of the Pacific Ocean winds, you might expect strong NW winds…
Mike Godsey These photos from the Ocean Beach King of the Cove event on April 26, 2024, tell the wind story. But if you need convincing that this was an epic day, look at the powerful winds at almost every WeatherFlow-Tempest shoreline sensor in the San Francisco Bay Area. The Red circles show sites with…
Mike Godsey “There is no North Pacific High this spring” (heard on the beach at Crissy Field) Are you are an avid West Coast surfer, kiteboarder, windsurfer, winger or sailor or just love to watch huge surf? Then you love the NW clearing winds and waves from the North Pacific High that commonly follow a…
by Mike Godsey Forecast Jargon Docoder: Thursday, April 4, 2024 A 2800-mile-wide North Pacific High spans the waters from the Gulf of Alaska to near the tip of Baja so very strong NNW ocean winds are blasting past of the Farallon Islands (18 miles west Gate). Unfortunately, a tiny 150-mile-wide wide low-pressure area loiters all…
Mike Godsey Forecast Decoder for March 12, 2024: Good but cloudy fishing conditions in the AM then, if the clouds clear as forecast, late foil to large kite winds strongest at Rasta Beach. Note: “El Norte” winds ramp up Saturday and peak Sunday Yep, the sunrise is beautiful but those heavy clouds often mean a weak…
VERY ROUGH DRAFT The topography of a Caribbean island and the strength of the trade winds can have a significant impact on each other. Here’s how: https://wx.iwindsurf.com/map#15.834,-76.217,6,297723 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1364032113006771 Trade winds:https://wx.iwindsurf.com/map#15.834,-76.217,6,297723 Island topography: The Venturi effect in general: The Venturi effect is a principle in fluid dynamics that states that when a fluid (like air) is…
by Mike Godsey Notice the low-pressure trough in the right side of the image. With low-pressure over almost all of the Sea of Cortez and no low-pressure south of Cabo the large scale pressure gradient is almost nil. This seems confirmed when you look at the satellite-derived winds of the ASCAT The next graphic shows…
Mild Local Sea Breezes in the low to mid-teens focus in the La Ventana area and weaker and/or less reliable for Los Barriles and Rasta Beach. Most of our wind today comes from blue sky heating in dead-end Los Planes Valley creating a modest local pressure gradient. Rasta Beach, further away from the valley often…