The Electric Blue / Blue-Green Beauty Contest
Mar 16, 2014
Dawn broke in Maz with a few clouds on the horizon, but it was a clear electric blue overhead. A few stragglers moved in later, but they're just strings of high wispy clouds that do nothing but add character to the view. The sky is contrasted with a particularly cool and lovely shade of blue-green the ocean is wearing for Sunday.
That mini-front yesterday was such a non event that I'm almost embarrassed to have forecast it. Yet it was a perfect example of the stable and non eventful weather Mazatlan has been blessed with this season. Other than our surprise Posada (Christmas) and New Year's rain, it's been a (really, really nice) bore....;^)
However things are still crazy elsewhere. We have back to back major North Pacific storms coming in to ravage many of the poor folks NOB praying for winter to end. The link will show you these two storms as white bands running on a 45 degree angle. The first one is zeroed in on the US / Canada border, with a tail running all the way to Hawaii. The second is out in the ocean right behind it, just off Alaska.
Vancouver Island is almost scary today, with 20 to 25 foot (6 to 8 meter) waves smashing the coast line, and tonight 30 M.P.H. (50 K.P.H.) winds will howl. Washington state has them beat with open ocean swells up to 30 feet (9 meters) and overnight winds to 35 M.P.H (56 K.P.H.)! Over the next week these twin storms will be given names as they sweep across the continental US and Canada raising havoc.
In the meantime I'm scratching to find something "different" about the weather in Maz for the coming week, and I found TWO things....Thank God! That "dropping" temperature trend, of a whopping one or two degrees, is going buh-bye. Also the ocean water has gone back up from the slight drop it saw last week (and these two things are not at all unrelated). That's IT...a couple of degrees?? OK, OK but we're talking the Pacific Pearl here. You were expecting a Polar Vortex...LOL
This week the electric blue skies / blue-green water beauty contest will continue until at least Saturday, when a little overcast may come in. You can also expect our temperatures to move back to the Maz bench mark, right at 80 degrees (27 C.). The big surprise is night time lows are also moving up, but an additional degree or two. It will only drop to maybe 67 (19.5 C.), and toward the end of week the low could be as gentle as 69 (20.5 C.).
OK I lied. There's a third change in the weather, as you can see our day / night variation is closing. Some days it could approach as little as a 10 degree swing (sorry I don't know how to figure that in Centigrade....;^) Did I mention the weather in Maz has been extraordinarily stable?
Atencion Fisherman (and Fisherladies??)!. Remember when I mentioned the warm water lane from southern waters was starting to move up and expand last week? Well it all but exploded in the last couple days. Over in Cabo they have only a couple of tiny patches where the water offshore is barely 76 degrees (24 C.).
Whereas it's all of that right on the beach in Maz, and waters in the fishing grounds offshore run up to 80. The topper is this area is HUGE, as in some parts reaching half way to Baja! If you're looking to catch species that like warm water and chase smaller fish up to Mazatlan, call your favorite captain...now.
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