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BMG
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Bajahowodd
It's the good old Japan current that runs South from the Arctic, combined with the prevailing Northwesterly wind that cools the West Coast, virtually
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First time I've ever heard that. The Kuroshio Current (Japan Current) is a warm
current that flows north through, of all places, Japan. A branch of the Kuroshio Current flows almost to the Hawaiian Islands. The other branch merges
with the cold Oyashio Current and form the North Pacific Current. The North Pacific Current splits and becomes the Alaska Current and the California
Current.
California and Baja California weather is affected by the cool California Current. Nature's air conditioning.
I think the world is run by C- students.
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BMG
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| Quote: | Originally posted by shari
the ocean can get up to 80 here in the late summer but is usually in the mid to high 70's from august-dec. |
Shari, looking forward to some of that "lucky" mid-70 water temp.
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Mulegena
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BMG
| Quote: | Originally posted by Bajahowodd
It's the good old Japan current that runs South from the Arctic, combined with the prevailing Northwesterly wind that cools the West Coast, virtually
as far South as Cabo. |
First time I've ever heard that. The Kuroshio Current (Japan Current) is a warm
current that flows north through, of all places, Japan. A branch of the Kuroshio Current flows almost to the Hawaiian Islands. The other branch merges
with the cold Oyashio Current and form the North Pacific Current. The North Pacific Current splits and becomes the Alaska Current and the California
Current.
California and Baja California weather is affected by the cool California Current. Nature's air conditioning. |
Hmmm, have I not read in a Baja travel book about the current that deposits floating ocean debris from the Orient onto the Baja Pacific Coast around
Guerro Negro and southerly environs?
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BMG
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Mulegena
Hmmm, have I not read in a Baja travel book about the current that deposits floating ocean debris from the Orient onto the Baja Pacific Coast around
Guerro Negro and southerly environs? |
The currents in the North Pacific flow in a clockwise rotation.
Counter-clockwise in the South Pacific. All of the currents move garbage that is eventually deposited on shores or trapped in the center of the
currents to create gigantic garbage patches in mid-ocean. The North Pacific garbage patch is estimated to contain millions of tons of mostly plastics.
Sailing in remote islands and atolls in the South Pacific we found lots of trash washed up on otherwise pristine shores. Mostly plastic bottles. The
last time we sailed from Hanalei to San Francisco we saw trash floating much of the way.
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There is no one perfect place in baja either east or west coast.
But many locations have "perfect" times of year.
Winter time in San Felipe is really nice for example. But it's beyond hot in summer time.
So the key is to know what is good and when... and then go there... whether it's SOC or Pacifica.
"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for." J. A. Shedd.
A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it. – Albert Einstein
"Life's a Beach... and then you Fly!" Fishbuck
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David K
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Mulegena
| Quote: | Originally posted by BMG
| Quote: | Originally posted by Bajahowodd
It's the good old Japan current that runs South from the Arctic, combined with the prevailing Northwesterly wind that cools the West Coast, virtually
as far South as Cabo. |
First time I've ever heard that. The Kuroshio Current (Japan Current) is a warm
current that flows north through, of all places, Japan. A branch of the Kuroshio Current flows almost to the Hawaiian Islands. The other branch merges
with the cold Oyashio Current and form the North Pacific Current. The North Pacific Current splits and becomes the Alaska Current and the California
Current.
California and Baja California weather is affected by the cool California Current. Nature's air conditioning. |
Hmmm, have I not read in a Baja travel book about the current that deposits floating ocean debris from the Orient onto the Baja Pacific Coast around
Guerro Negro and southerly environs? |
I suggest Mike McMahan's 1973 book 'There It Is: Baja!' or the newer 1983 paperback version, renamed 'My Adventures in Baja' to read about MALARRIMO
BEACH... which is the 'hook' halfway down the peninsula that grabs the Pacific Currents floating treasures and junk...
Photo is a closeup from one in the book showing their loot collected... Mike is on the right, next to his daughter Ginger and son-in-law Chuck Potter
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[Edited on 5-30-2009 by David K]
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bajagrouper
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Mark Twain's actual quote
| Quote: | Originally posted by thebajarunner
Remember Mark Twain's great quote:
"The coldest winter of my life was the month of August that I spent in San Francisco"
Our Pacific Ocean is an amazing air-con machine, top to bottom, and summer along the Pacific is not a warm place to be.... |
“The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco”
I hear the whales song
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Bajahowodd
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BMG- I stand corrected. However, my source was my father, who spent his life on the seas as a merchant marine. He told me that the entire clockwise
circulation throughout the North Pacific was referred to as the Japan current by those at sea. Helluva time to find out he lied.
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