Friday’s Wind Recipe:
1- A lobe of the North Pacific High has moved into the Pacific Northwest and far Northern California while the Central Valley low is bulging way west of the Marin/Sonoma coast.
2-This creates an S. to N. pressure gradient, so southerly eddy coast winds are blowing from Waddell to Pt. Reyes this morning.
3- It now appears that the eddy mostly dies in the afternoon but weak residual SW ocean winds blow ALL DAY.
3- The pressure gradient is focused towards Napa, Sacramento & Stockton so upper-teens to low 20’s wind North Tower, TI to Brooks fading to upper-teens for Shimada Park, Larkspur/Clark’s Brickyards BUT fog keeps Crissy Anita Rock winds weak until well past Anita Rock.
4- The Stockton gradient brings up and down upper-teens to Coyote and 3rd channel but unreliable shifty low to mid-teens for the launch sites.
5- Palo Alto and Alameda mid to weak upper-teens.