WeatherFlow’s Pro Forecasts are starting back up around the country and we are happy to announce that we are adding several new regions to the lineup! WeatherFlow will now be providing expert weather prediction for Texas, focusing on the coastal areas of South Padre Island, Corpus Christi, and Houston/Galveston, but to include other areas, such…
by Mike Godsey The coastal San Francisco Bay Area has seen an abrupt end of an oppressive heat wave during the last 12 hours. This occurred first as a Marine Surge arrived for Southern California waters bringing strong southerly winds, cooler air yesterday and after dusk fog. Then this morning this pattern was reinforced by…
A nagging upper high pressure has kept the San Francisco Bay Area hot for days. But far to the south it has been clear for several days that a Marine Surge was gathering steam for a lunge northward to the Golden Gate. (Here is a time-lapse video of a Marine Surge as seen from the…
There is a lot of waffling in my forecast today since there are so many variables in play! A huge dome of high pressure at ≈ 18,000 feet has toppled many record temps in Northern California in the last few days. All this heat has caused low-pressure to expand over the East Bay making for unreliable…
by Mike Godsey The Central Coast and Southern California had a great spring and early summer with the North Pacific High’s NW winds hanging nearby most day. But this weak a massive upper level high pressure over the western USA brought an end to those winds. This first graphic shows the upper level high pressure…
13 June 2021 – As we head into out 2021 hurricane season, we are seeing a couple of area of interest. One is in the Bay of Campeche and is expected to be very slow to aggregate over the coming days; however, the NHC (as of 2PM ET today) gives it a 30% chance to…
by Mike Godsey, Indecisiveness I have inserted my forecast for today June 11 in this image so that you can see the indecisiveness in my forecast. The reason for this is that the San Francisco Bay Area is right intersection between 2 massive weather systems. First let’s take a close up view first to see the forecasting…
by Matt Souders Some days, you get the bear, and some days, the bear gets you. Especially if you’re a microclimate wind forecaster. We can do all the prep work, come up with all of the rules of thumb and first principles of model analysis we should need, learn as much as possible about every…
by Mike Godsey and Matt Sounders Have you ever noticed that meteorologists are usually pretty accurate about the temperature and the amount of sunshine but are so often way off when it comes to wind? Look at this graphic of the weather projections for today Sunday, May 28 by 10 major computer models for Treasure…
Sometimes pictures tell the story better than lots of words. Usually, in the San Francis Bay Area, Central Coast and Southern California the winds are very different at different sites but today almost every site sees stronger than typical winds. Take a look at the model forecast for the Bay Area today at 4 PM….