Mike Bobbitt & Associates

Weather Influences on Winegrowing

Using low cloud satellite imagery MB & Assoc has developed techniques for tracking fog movement over time to be used for looking at the influence on winegrowing. The below example shows the effects of fog on a region.

This time sequence of map shows

the fog movement for the North Coast

of California on Sept 13th, 2005

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