Notice the huge mass of clouds carried by the Sub-Tropical Jetstream from a disturbance to the SW over Baja Sur. This mass of clouds has been lingering north of Baja’s East Cape the last few days but overnight lunged over us. If those clouds linger we will have weak unreliable wind. However, watching the satellite…
Yesterday saw an abrupt drop of the wind velocity at some La Ventana sensors around 2:30 PM. This fade nicely illustrates the importance of heat in the Los Planes Valley. Below is my forecast for yesterday which mentions the possibility of this happening. This satellite imagery shows the massive clouds to our north and the…
If the multimodel ensemble forecast for spare clouds today, Wednesday, Nov. 30, is correct we should see good heating in the Los Planes Valley inland of La Ventana. This heating is critical to get the winds to the beach since most of our large scale breeeze today is NNW wind from the North Pacific High…
The main wind machine for the East Cape wind capitals of Los Barriles and La Ventana are a combo of NNE El Norte winds from the Great Basin + local sea breezes genterated by low pressure in our coastal valleys. But in La Niña years the North Pacific High frequently moves close enough to Baja…
The banner above shows what the winds looked like at the La Ventana campground at 9:45 AM Thanksgiving Day. Note the building white caps. What causes the winds to start out so early and how did the forecast predict this in advance? Well, forecasting strong El Norte winds was easy. This next image shows the…
Baja’s East Cape forecast for La Ventana, Los Barriles and El Sargento: Looking at this amazing 7:15 AM satellite imagery you can see a solid mass of clouds from the subtropical jet stream is over the Sea of Cortez for Mulege to just north of La Paz. The edge of this cloud mass has a…
Baja daily human forecast Questions about the forecasts or blogs? mgodseywf@gmail.com About Mike Godsey WHAT PEOPLE SAY ABOUT THE BAJA FORECASTS THE WEATHERFLOW SENSOR NETWORK IN LA VENTANA IF IT SWELLS, RIDE IT! What causes Baja winter swell? CAUSES OF LONG EL NORTE WIND EVENT: PART 1: LINGERING HIGH PRESSURE IN THE GREAT BASIN…
Ask anyone who wings, kites or windsurfs the west coast from The Gorge to Los Barriles to Hawaii and they will heard of the North Pacific High. This dome of high pressure spans much of the Pacific and changes shape, location and size daily and seasonally. This brings trade winds Hawaii, NW clearing winds to…
In Part 1 of this blog, we saw how lingering surface high pressure over the Great Basin kept the El Norte winds blowing for days rather than the typical 2-3 days. In Part 2 we saw how an upper ridge can anchor that surface high pressure in place while increasing its strength. Now Part 3…