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NW clearing winds: a visual tour. by Mike Godsey
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NW clearing winds: a visual tour. by Mike Godsey
Big NW clearing winds for Southern California. by Mike Godsey As you saw in the blog below Southern California had the perfect setup for strong NW winds this weekend. Lots of upper teens to low 20’s or even stronger. Here is a satellite image of what that type of blow looks like: https://blog.weatherflow.com/west-coast-wind-blog-anatomy-of-a-southern-california/
Strong wind day on the coast by Mike Godsey If you look at the iwindsurf.com/ikitesurf.com/sailflow.com wind maps this afternoon for the S.F. Bay Area or Southern California you will be struck by how weak the winds are today. Yesterday a potent storm crashed into Northern California and even today both the Bay Area and Southern California…
Pesky surface ridge and passing storms. Part one. by Mike Godsey “When do we get rid of the North Wind in the Bay area? How about a little blog on this?” C. Jutkins I have received a good number of e-mails like this the last week or so. If you kite or sail in the…
Super Cyclone Debbie by Mike Godsey, Pretty windy in much of the S. F. Bay Area today. But Kerry, one of the Weatherflow Bay Area meteorologist, has family near Airlee Beach Australia and it is really windy in that area today as super cyclone Debbie kept the nearest sensor above 100 knots. Here is some imagery from…
Strong SE storm winds rake the Bay Area…briefly. by Mike Godsey Here some imagery of the rapidly developing and fast dying winds that are currently hitting much of the Bay Area. You can see why I am forecasting these winds to die fast both in the satellite imagery and in the model output.
The North Pacific High’s surface NW winds are siphoned off towards the Pacific Northwest by Mike Godsey So it is beach meteorology folklore that after a spring storm that the skies clear and the S. F. Bay Area has strong to wild NW clearing winds? So why did Kerry and I forecast weak winds today…
High pressure blankets mid USA creating strong pressure gradients. by Mike Godsey, mike@iwindsurf.com Tomorrow, Thursday Dec. 8, 2016 will see very strong east winds in the western Gorge to Portland while Baja’s East Cape sees significant El Norte winds. Surprisingly these winds, separated by thousands of miles of land, have the same cause. But first…
Storms dominate northern pacific by Mike Godsey, mike AT iwindsurf.com Remember this summer when the North Pacific High dominated the waters between the west coast and Hawaii? Back then wind most days was a given. So where did the Southern California, Bay Area and Gorge winds go? Part of the answer is the decreased hours of…
Major wintery storm off the coast. by Mike Godsey, mike AT iwindsurf.com There are a number of causes of east winds in the Gorge. The most common cause in early fall is the departure of the North Pacific High from our waters and high pressure developing in the Great Basin and Columbia Basin. This means…