Friday, May 18, 2012
Voice to Text---
.Looking down into the Sea this morning I can see that a few whispys passed over the central Sea yesterday afternoon but that was it for any clouds in the Sea.
This morning this image is showing the entire west coast of the Baja peninsula with a heavy fog bank encroaching well inland from the border to the cape. Here in the cove in Concepcion bay there is a thin fog bank moving up the center of the bay this morning and patches of fog all around the hills. I looked out through the fog this morning and saw Dave and Sam’s sailboat Isliea was almost on my porch. It was in about 4 feet of water leaning way over on the keel. There is a high tide at 11:30 this morning, hopefully she can sail off.
Looking now south to the Mexican Riviera where from about Manzanillo south they continue to see scattered bands of clouds pass over. No rain has been reported from any of the reporting stations though.
That are a thunderbumper activity is still off the west coast of the Riviera. Lots and lots of big thumpers working out there.
A couple hundred miles south of Acapulco I can see a rather stationary low that the National Hurricane Center has designated as invest 92 and are giving it about a 40% chance of further development.
Actually that’s not quite right. The Navy is the one who first posts and gives an invest a number. Again an invest is just an area of disturbed weather that has the potential to develop into a tropical or sub-tropical system. After the number the Navy attaches a letter identifying the basin they are located L-Atlantic, E-east Pacific W-Western Pacific etc. Once an invest is declared the National Hurricane Center as well as Met schools and universities start running model data on that particular system.
So endith Invest 101
Sister Aletta now about 800 miles west of the Manzanillo has packed her bags and being very depressed is headed out toward Hawaii.
Looking now at the Gulf of Tehuantepec where numerous thunderbumper have been working over the area for the past 24 hours giving cause to some strong, almost gale force winds being recorded early this morning. Not figuring in the thumpers in the area the winds in the Gulf are forecast to be in the 20-25 knot ranges through tomorrow when they should diminish to the moderate ranges.
Well, that’s what is going on in our hood so looking now north to the west coast of America where very pleasant weather continues all along the west coast. Fog hugs most of the west coast from the Oregon/California border south to Cabo Falso this morning. Temperatures along the coast are in the high 60s to low 70s while inland high 70s to the low 80s.
Southern California will be a bit cooler today as a low pressure system moves through the area. Warmer temperatures will return over the weekend under a high pressure ridge,
Looking now over to the southwest where the temperatures will again be in the 100s today for the Tucson area. It will cool down a bit while a low moving out of California moves through this weekend but on Monday they can expect to see 107 in the afternoon.
That’s what’s going on to the north of us. Back on this side of the Fence the entire Sea will be seeing moderate winds through the 3-day forecast period.
The northern Sea of Cortez: Today from the south and the weekend northerlies.
The central Sea will see moderate southerlies today moderate southerlies today and then moderate northerlies for the weekend.
The southern Sea WSW today and NW for the weekend.
Temperatures today will be about like yesterday and be in the mid to high 80s to the low 90s.
73s Y’all |