So some time around last Sunday afternoon I heard the word “breezy” creep into the local weather forecasting. Having heard this term used before around here, I double tied the boats. Monday and Tuesday it blew non-stop out of the North in the 40mph range with no letup and occasional gusts much higher. Monday evening [...]

Tropical Storm Omar wants to imitate Hurricane Lenny of 1999 and very well could. The difference this time is that Omar is still only a tropical storm while Lenny had become a hurricane moving West when it decided to turn around and head East. This caught many people off guard as they thought the storm [...]

Some morning in the not-too-distant future you will wake up and log on to check out what the wind is doing at the Western reaches of the Santa Barbara Channel and you will have a hard time knowing. Buoy #’s 46023 off Point Arguello and 46054 in the middle of the Western Channel itself are [...]