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…
Mike Godsey During El Niño years it is more common to have the clouds of the Sub-Tropical Jetstream over Baja Sur. While La Ventana often has nice sunrises these jet clouds This often create spectacular sunrises in the La Ventana area making the village a window to the eastern sunrise. Sometimes the clouds linger the…
Fprecast Decoder: Monday, March 11, 2024 The large-scale winds fade away today as the North Pacific High moves over the Sea of Cortez and the low-pressure south of Cabo disappears killing the wind most of the Sea of Cortez. Indeed if you look at all the global low-resolution models they are forecasting sub-teens for Baja’s…
Forecast Decoder by Mike Godsey: Yesterday, Matts’s forecast, somewhat cryptically, talked about an overly-friendly North Pacific High. Remember the old cliche about “Too much of a good thing”? Normally having a smallish winter-sized 1-2000 mile-wide North Pacific High near Baja is good for the Sea of Cortez winter winds. But as spring approaches and the…
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…
Mike Godsey “A mighty tremor roused us from sleep at 3 pm in the SandDollar Condos. The ground vibrated beneath us, as colossal waves crashed against the shore. It was unmistakable – the reversal had finally come. Feb. 5, 2024” For starters I should mention that mild “Wind Reversals” can be a blessing since, as…
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…
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The winter 2019-2021 season in Baja was atypical in a number of ways. It started off with a bang in November but from that point on the winds were often unreliable unless you were on foils or big kites or sail. Or if you were there during one of the few strong wind periods. But…