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…
By WeatherFlow meteorologist Shea Gibson 6/30/2020 Well the Sahara Air Layer sure made the news with quite a dazzle this past month (June 2020), but just know that this is normal to see these giant plumes of dust aloft at the mid levels stretch across the Atlantic basin all the way to parts of the…
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…
by Mike Godsey, mikeATiwindsurf.com jmarik wrote about Part 1 of this blog: Hi Mike, Does this explain why 3rd Ave. channel was ripping while SFO was reading only low 20’s today? Cheers. Hi jmarik, I think you are probably right about the SFO winds. As you can see in this first image of yesterday’s standing waves…
by Mike Godsey & Matt Sounders, mikeATiwindsurf.com Link to Part Two of this blog. So take a look at this wind map from today, June 15. Do you see two very strange things? Benicia has AVERAGE wind of 29 and my forecast last night called for very strong UP AND DOWN winds for Benicia. As you…
by Mike Godsey, mikeATiwindsurf.com If you saw last nights and today’s forecast you know we are in for epic winds today as a marine surge southerly winds battle strong NW winds. This morning the southerly marine surge winds win out but this afternoon powerful wind from the North Pacific High winds win decisively as…