Bruce’s Briefs: Wx for 26, 27, 28, and 29 August. The end of Summer approaches, enjoy it while you can!

Plenty of sailing going on this weekend and the weather will co-operate, certainly on Saturday. The surface analysis chart and the sat pic show the reasons for our late start of sun today. Today started cloudy with some light mist and tomorrow will start the same way. Onshore flow will increase today bringing strong flow down the Strait of JdF and strong NW flow in the Strait of Georgia. Look for Small Craft Advisories and potentially gale warnings. This will continue through the weekend with the gradient easing on Sunday.

Sunday will see an easing of the pressure gradient over the entire area with lighter NW breeze coming to the coast and the Strait of JdF. For the Central and South Sound conditions will remain light and variable for the most of the day until a weak northerly fills down the Sound in the early evening.

The other charts of interest are the 500mb or upper level charts which show the jet stream starting to make its way south. This will allow more storms out of the Gulf of Alaska to make their way into the Salish Sea. Something to watch.

Enjoy the weekend!   

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