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Weather Archive for Monday, 11.22/10
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In between several frontal pulses rolling through over a multi-day period.  Strong thermal draw in the morning, but the jet stream was overhead and appeared to be having it's way above ridge line with persistent flow from the north.  The day was a bit unusual in that there wasn't much wind on the Oxnard Plain and the buoys around Point Conception were calm in the morning.  They did stir up later in the day to a typical flow from the NW.

The mountains may have worked down lower, but don't know of anyone who flew the mountains or even went to launch.

The wind did sweep down the coast some, and Bates worked for awhile.  It was sitting on a seam in the morning, blowing light from the SE as seabirds gaggled on the sheer line a little offshore, marking the edge of the whitecaps blowing from the SW.  Bates switched a few times and finally clocked in about 11:30ish.  Never built very strong, but the direction was good and pilots were ranging from Viola Fields to the point.  The best altitude was about 500 over the beach a little after noon, and it began to fade away after that.  By 3 PM it was light from the SE again and the caps were gone, but the buoys were filled in.

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