West Coast Wind Blog: High pressure in the USA takes today off but… tomorrow!
by Mike Godsey: Baja daily human forecast TODAY and TOMORROW in 2 images. TODAY: TOMORROW!
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by Mike Godsey: Baja daily human forecast TODAY and TOMORROW in 2 images. TODAY: TOMORROW!
I am sure that at 10 AM yesterday everyone who reads this forecast in La Ventana and Los Barriles were convinced that all my caveats about clouds spoiling the upper teens to low 20’s forecast were correct. The waters were calm and clouds everywhere. But like magic the skies mostly cleared for La Ventana and…
by Mike Godsey, Link to daily Baja forecast
by Mike Godsey, Link to daily Baja forecast My forecast barely came true yesterday for La Ventana and Los Barriles as blue skies appeared and the forecast winds briefly moved from the outer water wind line to the shore. Look carefully at this satellite imagery from about 10 am yesterday and you can see the…
by Mike Godsey, Link to daily Baja forecast 9 AM update with satellite imagery of today’s clouds at bottom First, the good news! Due to the generosity of John Salow and some work on his and my part and the support of the great folks at Kitesurfing Planet the Weatherflow.com network has added a beach…
by Mike Godsey Until this last decade, El Norte winds from the 4 corners region used to be the sole source of strong winds in the Sea of Cortez. These winds have a mostly NORTH direction which makes them side-onshore winds relative to most Sea of Cortez beaches. This means the wind do not need to…
by Mike Godsey, Link to daily Baja forecast Mild wind set up today as bullets 1-5 show in the image below. But more importantly these 2 photos from last night and dawn today remind us there is more to life in La Ventana than wind. But look carefully in the upper left corner between Eureka,…
by Mike Godsey Recently the Weatherflow iwindsurf.com and ikitesurf.com forecasts and our internal Slack channel have seen a lot of chatter about the very weird weather pattern from today, Thursday, Sept 16 to Sunday, Sept 19. During that time period, we make a rapid transition from a… Southerly eddy winds on the Northern California coast….
by Mike Godsey Have you noticed? The NW ocean winds are becoming more common this late summer into fall for Southern California and the San Francisco Bay Area? While the Columbia Rivers winds are a mere shadow of their summertime strength. So what causes these seasonal changes in the winds? The North Pacific High, a…
by Matt Souders & Mike Godsey At this point, you are probably wondering about the thick haze every morning that has plagued the Gorge and much of the Pacific Northwest. It barely has a hint of the typical brownish color of wildfire smoke nor does it have the smell of smoke. And unlike smoke, it…