Often there is substantial cooling as the easterly builds. This easterly breeze is usually blows between 12 and 20 mph and the water becomes choppy near shore.
After this period of calm, an easterly breeze will begin to fill in as the high pressure that built up inland from the day’s heating begins to “deflate”. Toward the latter half of the afternoon, the winds that have been wrapping around Santa Cruz point will begin to subside, and there will be a period of relative calm and some warming. Day sailors particularly enjoy this as it allows them to select the amount of wind they wish to sail in – from light winds to a stiff breeze and more, all within a span of 0-10 miles from shore. As you go farther out, the winds take on more of their “true” northwesterly character and increase. These winds are even more significantly blocked in Capitola by Pleasure Point, so Capitola is usually warmer and less windy. Closer to land in the north part of the bay these winds appear to be westerly as they wrap around Santa Cruz point. As this builds, you will notice that distinct “wind lines” appear across the water, with winds and waves being more brisk and steep as you go farther out. Sometime around noon, winds will begin to be noticed as the daily northwesterly flow down the coast builds and begins to wrap around the northern corner of the bay. If you like calm winds and seas, this is definitely the time to get on the water! The fog will burn off throughout the morning – usually by 11:00am or so it’ll be gone. If there’s going to be fog, it’ll be thickest during this time of day. In the morning there will be very little if any wind. Most (but not all) summer days on the northern part of Monterey bay follow a basic pattern: If a change to the pattern occurs, whatever that change is will probably stick around for 3-5 days”. As you move away from land, you will see more wind and waves. The least wind and waves are close to land. Weather in the northern part of Monterey bay can be summed up in this way: “Santa Cruz and Capitola are very well protected from normal summer coastal weather. Here are the two forecasts you’ll want to readīUT! If you are new to the area, some local knowledge will be very helpful. “That’s our biggest fear, if these storms are now more frequent - that we’re never going to be able to get our roads in good shape. “We don’t want to see another one of those winters again for a long time,” Hoppin said. In San Lorenzo Valley, rainfall of more than 94 inches almost doubled the area’s 50 inch average.īlier said the exact cause of such a severe winter is impossible to pinpoint, but scientists suspect climate change to be a factor in increasingly severe storms.įor the county, Hoppin said the storms served as a lesson to prioritize investment in roads and infrastructure, some of which had been in “poor shape” even before the storms hit. With more than 50 inches of rain in the city of Santa Cruz, the 2016-17 season ranked as wettest of the millennium and the fourth wettest on record for the city, according to National Weather Service Science and Operations Officer Warren Blier, who works out of the Monterey Forecast Office. The county has hired three outside engineering firms as consultants to speed up the repairs. Repairing the damage to 320 damaged sites is expected to take about five more years, according a report by public works director John Presleigh. The county, according to Hoppin, is anticipating footing the bill for about $20 million in repairs. The good news for a county facing a looming budget deficit and fiscal “belt-tightening”: More than $100 million of the funds are flowing in from state and federal coffers, predominantly from FEMA funding. “Fortunately we didn’t have the loss of life now that we did then but the damage to roads and infrastructure was actually worse,” Hoppin said. All told, 22 people lost their lives as a result of that storm, and about $56 million in damage was done to private property and almost as much to public infrastructure. WEATHER SANTA CRUZ MOUNTAINS 2017 TORRENT
That year, a three-day storm turned San Lorenzo Valley’s Love Creek into a torrent that triggered a deadly mudslide. The last comparable year in terms of storm damage, Hoppin said, was 1982. “This was the most expensive winter storm in county history,” said Santa Cruz County spokesman Jason Hoppin. But repairing the damage - in excess of $130 million countywide - is just beginning.
SANTA CRUZ > At the end of one of the driest Decembers on record, memory of the destructive January and February storms is already beginning to recede.
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