October 28, 2003

By Grzegorz | October 28, 2003

Photos of the Day

October 28 – San Diego

Jeannine of Yachtfinders/Windseakers in
San Diego sent us these photos of the view from their marina
on Shelter Island and from Harbor Island. Taken on Sunday morning,
they show clearly – well, clear is probably the wrong word.

Boats moored off Harbor Island

The mooring ground off Shelter Island

Streetlights remained on in broad daylight.
Photos Martin Fogel

The View from Above

October 28 – Southern California/Northern
Baja

Sunday, around 1pm, about the time the Baja Ha-Ha West Marine
Kick-Off Party started.
Satellite Images Courtesy NOAA

These satellite images come from the NOAA
Significant Imagery Web site. More can be seen at www.osei.noaa.gov/Events/Fires.

See www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2003/s2107.htm
for NOAA’s current report. Pictures from this morning were not
yet available when we posted. Winds are calm this morning.

Monday, at 12:44 PST. The Baja Ha-Ha fleet would have been in
the vicinity of the Mexican border, and would need to get past
the fire near Ensenada to get fresh air.

Monday, around ten in the morning. Winds out of the east-northeast
have been blowing the smoke well out into the Pacific.

YOTREPS

October 28 – The Pacific Ocean and Cyberspace

Who is out making passages in the Pacific
and what kind of weather are they having? The YOTREPS daily yacht
tracking page has moved to www.bitwrangler.com/psn.

Weather Updates

October 28 – Pacific
Ocean

San Francisco Bay Weather

Check out this guide to San Francisco Bay
Navigational Aids: http://sfports.wr.usgs.gov/sfports.html.

To see what the winds are like on the Bay
and just outside the Gate right now, check out http://sfports.wr.usgs.gov/wind.

The National Weather Service site for San
Francisco Bay is at www.wrh.noaa.gov/Monterey.

California Coast Weather

Looking for current as well as recent wind
and sea readings from 17 buoys and stations between Pt. Arena
and the Mexican border? Here’s the place – which has further
links to weather buoys and stations all over the U.S.: www.ndbc.noaa.gov/Maps/Southwest.shtml.

Pacific Winds and Pressure

The University of Hawaii Dept. of Meteorology
page posts a daily map of the NE Pacific Ocean barometric
pressure and winds.

Pacific Sea State

The site for the Pacific Ocean sea states
has moved to http://www.mpc.ncep.noaa.gov/shtml/PacRegSSA.shtml.

For views of sea states anywhere in the world,
see http://www.oceanweather.com/data.

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