Tag: dust storm

Dust Storms and Forest Fires

Post author By Nautilus Staff
Categories Archive, Captain Mike
Post date 2007-10-23

By Nautilus Staff on October 23rd, 2007 in Archive, Captain Mike

Locals here in Ensenada are telling us that they have never seen such sustained and strong Santa Ana outflow winds. The good news is that the downtime gave us an extra 5 days to catch up on painting, varnishing, carpentry, welding repairs and such. The bad news is that winds blew up such a choking dust storm that it was impossible to get any painting done until the winds finally died down this morning.

Tags Cabo San Lucas, dust storm, Ensenada, forest fire, freak weather, mini refit, San Diego, Sea of Cortez, weather woes

Tied Up to the Dock in a Dust Storm

Post author By Nautilus Staff
Categories Archive, Captain Mike, Guadalupe
Post date 2007-10-22

By Nautilus Staff on October 22nd, 2007 in Archive, Captain Mike, Guadalupe

Freak conditions for sure with a large residual wave train travelling down the coast and colliding with the strongest sustained Santa Ana winds in Baja California that anyone can remember. It’s been blowing 35 – 40 knots in Ensenada for two days now with very reduced visibility in a miserable dust storm. Everyone in town is wearing dust masks, the power is flickering on and off and everything – EVERYTHING – on the Nautilus is covered with a thick layer of gritty dust. It hurts your eyes just to walk upwind.