Two little graphics here:

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This is the beginnings of the summer wind season in the Bay Area, which means you can generally select when you want to go KAPping, as long as it’s in the afternoon, and you will probably have good wind. The first graph shows the wind & gust data for three days. In the afternoons, typical gusts are about 2-3 kts, while the max gust was 5kts from a pretty breezy 15kts anyway. You’ll notice the wind picks up and settles into a westerly direction a little after lunch, then stays that way until after sunset.

This effect is shown incredibly strongly correlated in the second graph– while the minutiae of the wind speeds in the morning and even in the afternoon vary significantly day to day, the wind is always strong enough for KAPping, and the direction is incredibly consistent.

This pattern has just started the past week, so we will see if it keeps up. Will probably get disturbed by a front moving through in a week or two.

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