Moondogs and Southern California Storms
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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…
Part one of this blog below is about the smaller eddies mostly in the Bodega to Golden Gate area that have been so common during the 2019 summer season. These eddies often totally or partially die in the afternoon making for extremely difficult forecasts since the southerly eddy wind may die allowing NW wind to…
Eddy: May 8 Eddy: May 7
Hi Gang, Sunday, April 28: If you are a wind addicted kite or windsurfer the eddy is probably on your minds a lot recently. Either because it is wrecking your wind or because it is making great wind at your site. And right now it looks like some type of eddy continues for the next…
As can see from the forecast headline screen shot the forecast for Saturday said mid to upper teens IF we got some holes in the heavy clouds otherwise the wind would stay way outside. Those winds seemed pretty likely at dawn and by noon I was chickening out on my forecast since the satellite image…
So how can we have 2 days with very strong El Norte winds on Feb. 7 and 8th then have Saturday Feb. 9 have such a weak wind forecast? Remember that weather generally moves from the west to the east. And on Saturday a strong low pressure storm system crashes into the Northern California to…