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…
Gusts and lulls, up and down, crazy wind. Why are winds sometimes mild and other times wild? There are many complex meteorological causes for the turbulence that causes gusts and lulls, but here we focus on gusts and lulls winds where the causes are very local and easy to visualize. The local cause of gusts…
by Meteorologist Kerry Anderson The California forecasts this week have been all about the “marine clouds”. Our winds hinge on the depth, breadth, spin, and reach of these clouds. This is not unusual at this time of the year due to the prevailing High-pressure ridges that frequent our area. It is typical to see large…
by Mike Godsey, mikeATwindsurf.com ROUGH DRAFT If you are a Pt. Isabel or Sherman Island or sometimes Larkspur regular you are loving all the southerly flow for the unending eddies this summer. And you are probably noticing how the forecasts usually nail the eddy pattern. But if you are a Waddell or 3rd. kiter you…
We have been advertising a marine surge this week due to a growing eddy. While this was not a classic surge this may be one of the more visually interesting due to the marine clouds that have been lingering along the coast. An eddy has enlarged and strengthened with the help of an upper-level trough. …
by Mike Godsey, MikeATiwindsurf.com You may have noticed the warning in today’s forecast saying: “With strong NNW winds at the 975 mb. level at ≈ 1,000 ft. the prevailing surface winds may be diverted at times at some sites. Note: NNW winds aloft may make the winds UP AND DOWN at times especially Pt….
Long long ago in a climatologically different universe, Larkspur Landing/PSQ was an extremely popular windsurfing site. Sir Francis Drake Blvd. was so jammed on both sides of the highway by windsurfers fighting for parking that is was common for 5 PM traffic to be gridlocked on windy days. And, back then there were 3 windsurfing…
Due to COVID restrictions, many of us will miss the skies lighting up with fireworks this 4th of July but though the celebrations will be atypical the weather will quickly shift this week into a more traditional summer pattern. Heat surges up through the center of the country over the next couple of days and…
This past weekend, a number of communities in the West experienced the devastating result of combining fireworks and winds. One of those became very personal for me as I was up until 3am Sunday morning helping my daughter and her family. They spotted flames on a nearby hillside just after midnight. The fire was started…
by Mike Godsey, mikeATwindsurf.com I put out a marine surge alert this morning and at 11:47. Now at 5 PM it is clear I was right about the marine surge arriviing tomorrow. In the satellite animation below you can see how fast the southerly marine surge has moved since dawn. If it continued that march…