Bouyweather is looking really crappy for this weekend....
- Thread starter moore_rb
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www.buoyweather.com
You can see a two day prediction for free. If you want to see longer range (a week at a time) you must buy a subscription, $99 a year I believe. I have a subscription. You'll get different opinions about Buoyweather from folks. It's all based on computer models or "virtual" buoys, so it's not showing you real-live conditions at any given time. It can be very accurate or it can be way off, just like the weather itself. Sometimes, a low pressure area or cold front will move in faster or suddenly slow down and stall and that tends to throw the predictions off a bit. So, you can't count on it being 100% accurate. Where it has substantial value is looking at the trends. For example, if shows flat and light winds for a few days, you'll probably have a good window for fishing. If it's showing a blow like it is for this coming weekend, you can be pretty sure there will be wind and good-sized waves, making miserable fishing conditions. Buoyweather also summarizes conditions for the morning and afternoon each day and assigns a flag color - green, yellow or red. I've never seen a red that was wrong. I've seen green conditions that were yellow and vice-versa, but when they red flag (small craft advisory) you can bet you don't want to be out there in a boat.
You can see a two day prediction for free. If you want to see longer range (a week at a time) you must buy a subscription, $99 a year I believe. I have a subscription. You'll get different opinions about Buoyweather from folks. It's all based on computer models or "virtual" buoys, so it's not showing you real-live conditions at any given time. It can be very accurate or it can be way off, just like the weather itself. Sometimes, a low pressure area or cold front will move in faster or suddenly slow down and stall and that tends to throw the predictions off a bit. So, you can't count on it being 100% accurate. Where it has substantial value is looking at the trends. For example, if shows flat and light winds for a few days, you'll probably have a good window for fishing. If it's showing a blow like it is for this coming weekend, you can be pretty sure there will be wind and good-sized waves, making miserable fishing conditions. Buoyweather also summarizes conditions for the morning and afternoon each day and assigns a flag color - green, yellow or red. I've never seen a red that was wrong. I've seen green conditions that were yellow and vice-versa, but when they red flag (small craft advisory) you can bet you don't want to be out there in a boat.
moore_rb
Stay Thirsty My Friends
bouyweather.com
4- day forecasts are free- the ability to get 7 day forecasts costs 80 bucks per year.
The wind data for Puerto Penasco is not coming through from NOAA accurately, so I recommend pulling the GFS Mateo data and look at the forecast wind speeds being listed there.
Here is the GFS forcast for this coming weekend- this is for an area about 20 miles offshore from RP:
BUOYWEATHER.COM Meteo Forecast
Location : 31.0N 114.0W
Time Zone: GMT - 6 hours
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AIR DEW WIND WIND PREC
TEMP TEMP RH% SPD(KTS) DIR SLP LI CP CLD% PREC TYPE T-STORMS
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7/15 12pm 88 72 58 7 - 9 SE144 1010 -0.2 0 4 0.03 RAIN POSSIBLE
7/15 6pm 87 73 62 7 - 9 S171 1008 -1.4 2 29 0.00 RAIN POSSIBLE
7/16 12am 88 74 62 5 - 6 SSW202 1008 -1.6 3 10 0.00 POSSIBLE
7/16 6am 87 74 64 12 - 16 SE137 1011 -3.3 11 56 0.00 PROBABLE
7/16 12pm 86 75 68 7 - 9 ESE128 1012 -1.6 6 100 0.00 POSSIBLE
7/16 6pm 84 75 74 10 - 13 SSE155 1009 -2.1 10 99 0.00 PROBABLE
7/17 12am 87 75 67 6 - 8 S174 1010 -1.8 10 70 0.00 POSSIBLE
7/17 6am 86 76 71 12 - 16 SE146 1010 -5.1 18 100 0.00 SEVERE
7/17 12pm 87 74 65 11 - 15 SE136 1012 -2.9 8 82 0.00 PROBABLE
7/17 6pm 86 75 70 15 - 21 SE143 1008 -3.4 11 71 0.00 PROBABLE
7/18 12am 88 75 63 8 - 11 SSE151 1009 -1.7 6 67 0.00 RAIN POSSIBLE
7/18 6am 86 74 65 9 - 13 SE133 1008 -1.3 3 43 0.00 RAIN POSSIBLE
7/18 12pm 85 73 67 10 - 14 SE141 1010 -0.4 1 22 0.00 POSSIBLE
7/18 6pm 86 73 64 14 - 19 SE135 1006 -0.8 3 25 0.00 POSSIBLE
7/19 12am 88 73 61 9 - 13 S180 1008 -1.5 3 8 0.00 POSSIBLE
7/19 6am 85 72 64 8 - 11 SE146 1007 -0.8 1 4 0.00 POSSIBLE
7/19 12pm 84 72 66 12 - 16 SE142 1008 -0.1 0 1 0.00 POSSIBLE
7/19 6pm 87 71 59 14 - 19 SE140 1005 0.1 2 2 0.00 UNLIKELY
7/20 12am 88 72 58 10 - 14 S186 1006 0.2 2 2 0.00 UNLIKELY
7/20 6am 84 71 65 9 - 13 SSE155 1006 1.2 0 1 0.00 UNLIKELY
7/20 12pm 83 70 63 9 - 13 SE144 1008 1.6 0 3 0.00 UNLIKELY
7/20 6pm 87 71 59 15 - 20 SE143 1005 0.0 2 3 0.00 UNLIKELY
7/21 12am 88 70 55 9 - 12 SSW197 1006 1.9 0 3 0.00 UNLIKELY
7/21 6am 84 70 60 7 - 10 SSE162 1007 3.4 0 1 0.00 UNLIKELY
7/21 12pm 84 68 59 7 - 10 ESE129 1008 3.7 0 0 0.00 UNLIKELY
7/21 6pm 85 69 58 12 - 17 SE132 1004 2.9 0 1 0.00 UNLIKELY
7/22 12am 88 70 55 7 - 10 SSW202 1005 4.4 0 1 0.00 UNLIKELY
7/22 6am 84 70 62 4 - 6 SSE154 1006 5.0 0 0 0.00 UNLIKELY
7/22 12pm 83 66 56 5 - 7 ESE126 1007 5.4 0 0 0.00 UNLIKELY
7/22 6pm 83 66 54 9 - 13 ESE122 1004 6.0 0 0 0.00 UNLIKELY
moore_rb
Stay Thirsty My Friends
Stuart are you still planning to head down...?
I don't know what the hell I'm gonna do- RP looks like it will be super choppy, and the fishing in San Diego looks stone-cold. The only good action in California waters looks to be a good WSB bite on the hard side of Catalina island
I seriously do not want to burn twice as much gas driving to California to get skunked, plus all the chaos on the public boat ramps over there, etc...
blah. Some cheese to go with my whine, please...?
Anything beats staying in Phoenix if that's where you are. It's miserable here. Burn less gas, go to PP, drink some beers, relax and forget about fishing this weekend! Problem solved!
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bigdog
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what kind of license do i need to fish from shore or my kayak? how much is it? where can i get it