Thermal gradients
How coast-to-interior heating contrasts, pressure gradients, and seasonal patterns organize the wind.
Weather made understandable
Forecasts make more sense when you can see the pattern.
WindWhys looks beyond a number on a forecast table. Short visual explainers connect the atmosphere’s larger patterns to the local wind that sailors, kiters, wingfoilers, cyclists, photographers, and coastal communities actually experience.
The goal is simple: clearer weather understanding, delivered with respect for the complexity and beauty of the West Coast atmosphere.
“Wind is rarely random. There is almost always a story in the pressure pattern, terrain, water, and sky.”
What WindWhys explores
The forces behind the forecast.
Practical weather interpretation for people who want to understand what drives the day—not just what an app says may happen.
Marine layers & coastal jets
Why cool ocean air, headlands, terrain, and the evolving marine layer can focus or suppress coastal wind.
Gap winds, eddies & local effects
How valleys, capes, mountain passes, and shoreline geometry turn broad-scale flow into local conditions.
Follow along
See the weather story unfold.
WindWhys videos use maps, models, satellite imagery, observations, and plain language to show how a setup is developing—and why it matters.
Watch the latest public explainers and follow the evolving wind-weather conversation.
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