So for days, my Baja forecast has been calling for very strong winds Sunday, Dec 13, 2020. But as the date finally arrived I was only calling for upper-teens to low 20’s for the La Ventana to Los Barriles area. Why? Well the expected high pressure developed in the 4 corners (where all the USA…
The Baja’s East Cape kiteboarding and windsurfing sites Los Barriles and La Ventana have seen almost 2 weeks of great wind. But on December 9, 2020, those winds came to a grinding halt. This occurred as 2 low-pressure systems blocked both of the Baja wind machines. In this animation of both satellite imagery and model output,…
The last week of November 2020 has see day of winds over 20 knots for La Ventana, Baja Sur, Mexico. The graphic below shows the large high pressure area that has changed shape and size a lot over this period but has stay centered in the Great Basin and 4 corners (where all the USA…
This animation shows how large scale events distant California both vertically and horizontally can impact our temperatures and winds. Looking at this animation first notice the upper trough and upper ridge that are moving towards the Golden State from the west. Focus on the upper ridge which is a northward extending loop of upper-level winds at…
Once again the west coast has a dome of high pressure over the entire region. For the San Francisco Bay Area this dome of upper-level high pressure at ≈ 18,000 ft. has: 1. Crushed the marine layer to a patchy thin layer of fog. 2. Compacted all the smoke down to near the surface. 3. Created…
Weatherflow San Francisco Bay Area wind forecast by Mike Godsey San Francisco Bay Area forecast at 11:30 AM: Looking at over a dozen cams about the Bay Area and at the satellite imagery we see an apocalyptic scene filled with reddish smoke intermingled with marine layer fog. Streetlights are still on at 11 AM and…
If the model data is right it looks like we are transitioning into 7 days of a steadily enlarging eddy. To put this in perspective… 20 years ago we saw an eddy once or twice a season. This animation below shows some of the major surface players in creating this scenario over the next…
by Mike Godsey, mike AT windsurf.com This photo, taken by Jaden Schaul @santacruzfilms, shows roll clouds at the leading edge of thunderstorm and lightning at Santa Cruz last night. The graphic at the end of this blog shows how roll clouds form in thunderstorms. Long time WeatherFlow customer Ron P. lives in Greenbrae in…
Part 1 the big picture. The headlines are heating up about record temperatures being set from Salt Lake City to Tucson to Dallas and to the 0 percent contained ravaging Southern California fires. At this time it looks like Death Valley, the hottest place on the planet, will reach 127 by Monday. In response, the…
This is just a quick visual on the just forming small eddy west of the Golden Gate. This eddy will greatly enlarge during the next 12 hours and bring southerly winds to much of the Central California coast. It is all a matter of perspective… All available data still supports this bipartisan forecast. Watch…