RE: Call of the Wind-Data request

From: Scott Winkler (scottw@force4.com-DeleteThis)
Date: Fri Jul 23 1999 - 16:22:19 PDT

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Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 16:22:19 -0700
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From: Scott Winkler <scottw@force4.com-DeleteThis>
Subject: RE: Call of the Wind-Data request
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Have been following this thread with some interest. Personally, I think
COTW is a great service. IMO, the real problem is truly lousy wind for the
past few years.

Don't mean to sound like a windasaur, but does anybody remember the days
before COTW/WWW when it would blow 20-25 knots from the NW 6 out of 7 days
during prime season? By this time of the year, I would welcome a break to
let my hands patch up and various joints recuperate. Forecast methodology:
Get in car ~1:00pm; if fog over bay (from Palo Alto), go to San Luis or
Rio. Otherwise Crissy/Coyote. Waddell if 11:00am buoys on NWS radio were
going off.

Currently, with the predominant W/SW flow we see, w/ generally marginal
conditions, all the major sites have gusty, shifting winds, w/ large inside
wind holes. COWT and all the other web resources very accurately present a
ton of data that all point to the same thing: The weather (at least for
windsurfing) sucks! Mike Godsey's forecasts w/ talk about cut-off lows, and
troughs etc highlight the day by day problem, but I've never seen anybody
discuss what appears in my mind to be a major shift in Bay Area weather.

Comments?
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