for a print version. Not as complete but good for a quick scan for your area.
I listen every morning on vhf radio in the Bay. Great stuff to plan your fishing or ? trips.
Bravo Club Burro (Geary)!bajabass - 12-16-2011 at 06:02 AM
Weather Underground is usually pretty accurate. Enough that I'm driving over the hill to do some shore fishing at Las Arenas/ Muertos. First day of
calm winds in a while, so they say.Russ - 12-16-2011 at 07:22 AM
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Originally posted by bajabass
Weather Underground is usually pretty accurate. Enough that I'm driving over the hill to do some shore fishing at Las Arenas/ Muertos. First day of
calm winds in a while, so they say.
Expecting photos of you gear, beaches you fish & the fish you snag.
Good LuckRnR - 12-17-2011 at 06:44 AM
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Originally posted by bajabass
Weather Underground is usually pretty accurate. Enough that I'm driving over the hill to do some shore fishing at Las Arenas/ Muertos. First day of
calm winds in a while, so they say.
Here's another forecast site specifically targeted at wind and waves for La Ventana/El Sargento. Scroll down to the second graphic to see the bar
charts for wind/waves, etc. If the wind is from the North, it tends to be 3-5 mph stronger inside the bay than the forecast due to the thermal
heating in Los Planes. Outside the bay, it's right on.
ikitesurf, sailflow, buoyweather, they all lie!!!! On Pescador's and others advice, I get a general idea from all the sites, then make a decision by
looking out the window into Bahia La Paz, then take my chances. They were right on target yesterday. I enjoyed about four hours of total solitude at
Las Arenas, right on the point. Very calm until a light breeze picked up about 1pm.
Sorry Russ, camera is screwed, plus I STILL have not figured out how to post here. BUT, the weather was great, and the view from Las Arenas, out to
Cerralvo is postcard stuff for sure.
Gear= 8ft Phenix MH bass rod, Abu Garcia 6500 c-4 Leftie, 15lb Big Game, 2ft 30lb mono leader, Krocs, Kastmasters, Rangers, Rattle Traps. 3 small
jacks, 1 needlefish, and 8 Pacificos!!!gnukid - 12-17-2011 at 08:38 AM
Don’t sell your coat!
by Harold Ambler
What follows is an excerpt from Harold Ambler's new book "Don’t Sell Your Coat"
I want to examine the moral component of meteorological journalism. As I mentioned near the beginning of this book, I used to be an avid watcher of
The Weather Channel. For a good couple of decades, the network was not only an important component for the fledgling cable industry, but an excellent
source of information about current weather and climate, as well about atmospheric science itself. An interesting thing took place during the 1990s,
though. Weather Channel viewership was found to spike during hurricanes, and not merely among viewers in areas that could be affected by the
individual storm being discussed. A lot of folks evidently loved watching the progress of tropical storms, the stronger the better. Hurricanes became,
over time, a revenue producer for the network. Experts were hired and given regular on-air time, and hurricane segments were given their own titles,
their own graphics, and their own music.
People loved it. Much of this was quite innocuous, and arguably inevitable. Hurricanes are indeed interesting, and for a period of about 15 years it
was widely believed, even by many scientists, that manmade global warming was ramping up the number, intensity, and duration of storms. In the last
few years, however, links between recent atmospheric warming and hurricane activity, as we have seen, have been reconsidered.
In the meantime, though, the false link had lodged in the popular imagination, and The Weather Channel was more or less avidly exploiting it. The
network’s presenters didn’t overtly come out and say that individual storms were generated by tailpipe and smokestack emissions, but they didn’t
really have to at this point. The misconception was so pervasive and so widespread that merely trumpeting the “unusual” power of the storms themselves
sufficed. In the meantime, the network slowly upped its on-air mentions of the phenomenon of global warming during the daily program cycle and
eventually devoted a new segment to the phenomenon known as “Forecast Earth.”
Video alarmism regarding atmospheric phenomena is, perhaps, to be expected by a network like The Weather Channel. After all, it is hardly alone. The
major cable news networks routinely send meteorologists and other reporters into the path of hurricanes, so that they can be seen amid the rising
waters, gusting winds, and torrential rains.
Get it out of your head: weather didn’t used to be friendly. It didn’t used to rain just enough, snow just enough, with the wind blowing just enough,
and the Sun shining just enough. Things didn’t recently go to Hell in a hand basket. That is just a story. And it’s not
a particularly hard story to prove false.
The Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad aka the "KATY". A 1903 Missouri River flood, besides impacting travel, toppled bridges, killed many, and left
20,000 homeless. Passengers and crew stand atop the Missouri-Kansas-Texas train. - Image: library of Congress - click for more flood info
On the other hand, the tranquil weather being experienced by most people around the globe at any given time goes ignored and unvideotaped. Again, one
can understand why this would be so. In the newspaper business, and other journalistic domains as well, fires are of note. Non-fires aren’t. Fair
enough. But something very insidious has taken place. The selling of weather disasters as entertainment has led to a state in which big business
stands to gain handsomely from the perception that the planet has gone meteorologically mad. Specifically, General Electric stands to profit. When in
2008 NBC (owned by General Electric) purchased The Weather Channel, an interesting thing took place: the largest domestic producer of wind turbines
became the owner of the best-positioned purveyor of images of destructive weather. The same year, NBC’s Today Show continued its longstanding practice
of “showing” the great destruction to the ocean-atmosphere system caused by manmade global warming, with story after story: fires, floods, melting
Kilimanjaro, you name it. The rest of NBC News, and the Weather Channel, meanwhile, keep the same pieces of videotape on nearly infinite repeat.
Summing up: Wind turbines do not deliver reliable electric power; the ocean-atmosphere system is not broken; scaring people needlessly isn’t nice –
and it distracts them from the actual environmental problems surrounding them.
About Harold Ambler
I was obsessed with weather and climate as a young boy and have studied both ever since. I have English degrees from Dartmouth and Columbia and
started my career in journalism at The New Yorker magazine, where I worked from 1993 to 1999. My work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The
Huffington Post, The AtlanticWire (the Atlantic Monthly’s online presence), Watts Up With That?, The Providence Journal, Rhode Island Monthly, Brown
Alumni Monthly, and other publications. I co-wrote and edited a 600-page history of rowing for Brown University, published in March 2009. I am
grateful for donations to my research through PayPal on this site’s front page. I am married to the painter and illustrator Kim Edge. We have two
daughters, one dog, and a cat.
“ Harold Ambler has assembled an easy-to-follow, systematic, common-sense treatment of the manmade global warming agenda that demands the attention of
any person of good
will in this debate.” – Joe Bastardi, chief forecaster, WeatherBELL Analytics
“ How did the good politics of social justice become chained to the bad science of global warming? Read Don’t Sell Your Coat to find out how it
happened.” – Freeman Dyson, world-renowned physicist, professor emeritus at Princeton
“ You don’t need to be a right-wing SOB to think that ‘Man Made Global Warming’ is an Enron-style scam. Harold Ambler is a card-carrying liberal and
he thinks so, too.
He’s also very funny. Buy this book!” – James Delingpole, author of Watermelons: The Green Movement’s True Colors
Gnukid: With all due respect, it looks to me like TV weather forecasters, Alex Jones, and Jesse Ventura vs. climate scientists.
Climate gate was debunked, but people keep repeating it like a mantra.
Global warming is a conspiracy to control the world, but the capitalists that stand to benefit from non-regulation are powerless to fight it. Funny,
they are so good at fighting everything else.
I don't claim to know the answers, but let's keep thinking, ESPECALLY when we like what we hear. We'll drink less Cool Aid.
