I HOPE

[charlie]

SAN FRANCISCO SAN PABLO SUISUN BAY AND THE WEST DELTA-
236 PM PST THU DEC 15 2005

.TONIGHT...NE WINDS 5 TO 10 KT...BECOMING LIGHT NW. AREAS OF FOG.
.FRI...W WINDS 5 TO 10 KT. AREAS OF FOG IN THE MORNING.
.FRI NIGHT...SW WINDS 5 TO 10 KT.
.SAT...SE WINDS 5 TO 15 KT.
.SAT NIGHT...SE WINDS 10 TO 20 KT. A CHANCE OF RAIN.

SUN...SE WINDS 10 TO 20 KT. CHANCE OF RAIN

[Hana]

Yeah I'm hopin' too. Even though I left my wet wetsuits in Ishigaki, I'm thinking of buying another one Saturday morning. Then I'll be happy. Otherwise I'm flying to SPI soon...

[Greg]

I might have to fly home for the weekend, All the forcast have been wrong around here!!!
Hope you get a 60' air,
L.M.G.

[charlie]

Who would have felt that we all would charge 10 to 20...?

sounds so.... good to me right now.
as does S.P.I.....or snow kite..ing up at squw.


well then let us HoPe.

[Pablito]

SE 10-20 is kiteable at Alameda?

Never been. May have to check it out on Sunday. Is that like side-onshore there?

I think you're going to want to wait for, like, a week of storms up in Tahoe before thinking about snowkiting.

[BayAreaKite]

Alameda works on a lot of directions, most anything except N, NE or E. Don't know if the sensor needs calibration, but ENE (oops, shhh!) has been good in the past also. Anything with South is good and typical winter or storm direction and opposite of normal spring, summer or fall W, WNW or WSW.

[Pablito]

Cool!
Normally I see SE and I think "offshore".

There was actually a south breeze here for about an hour today mid-afternoon. I almost got excited.

[Pablito]

NWS this morning:
Models all onboard with upcoming wet weather. 1st event
poised to move in late Saturday into Sunday. Then by Tuesday into
Wednesday the GFS continues to show a "pineapple express" pattern
setting up with rising 500mb heights and a favorable south-southwest trajectory.
Have raised snow levels significantly this period to above 8000 feet.
Third shortwave prognosticated to move onshore across northern California on Thursday.
This system should have snow levels lowering to near 6000-7000 feet
across the Sierra.

[charlie]

SAN FRANCISCO SAN PABLO SUISUN BAY AND THE WEST DELTA-
247 AM PST FRI DEC 16 2005

.TODAY...LIGHT WINDS...BECOMING W 5 TO 15 KT IN THE AFTERNOON.
AREAS OF DENSE FOG EARLY IN THE MORNING.
.TONIGHT...W WINDS 5 TO 15 KT...DIMINISHING OVERNIGHT.
.SAT...SE WINDS 5 TO 10 KT.
.
SAT NIGHT...SE WINDS 5 TO 10 KT. CHANCE OF RAIN.

.SUN...SE WINDS 5 TO 10 KT. CHANCE OF RAIN.
.MON...SE WINDS 5 TO 10 KT. SLIGHT CHANCE OF RAIN.
.TUE...SE WINDS 5 TO 10 KT. SLIGHT CHANCE OF RAIN.
well so far there are up and down
still more hope.

[Pablito]

Damn Charlie, I was just about to post that. I guess you and me constitute the early risers club around here.

Hehehe, your post yesterday was at 4:20 again. Are you doing that on purpose?