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🔥 Pere Marquette just fired
Jumped to 22 kts SW. That meter is 28 miles up the shore, upwind of your spot.
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📆 Saturday looks good at Grand Haven
3 of 4 models agree on 18-22 kts SW. Clear your afternoon.
🌡️ WindStoke 1:15 PM
🌡️ NW thermal filling in at Muskegon
Forecast said East, not rideable. It's swinging NW and building, 8 to 14 kts. Be on the water by 2:00.

You know the guy.

Every spot has one. He's already on the water when you pull in. He's always already on the water when you pull in. You don't know what he does for a living. He's got the tan and the sun-bleached hair and that lean, weathered look that tells you everything about his priorities without him saying a word. You're rigging up and you hear it before you see it. A kite ripping through a turn so hard the lines sing. He's way above the water, kite looping, and he floats it down with a heli like gravity is a suggestion.

And here's the part that gets you: the forecast said today was dead. Light, out of the east, not worth the gas. He came anyway, because he knew the sand would bake by noon and the lake would answer, that by two it'd be cranking out of the northwest. It always does. Your app never saw it coming. He did.

What does he know that you don't?

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What he knows, on the record.

LAKE-BREEZE CALLS · MUSKEGON

A lake breeze (thermal wind) is the onshore wind that fills in on a hot afternoon. No forecast model predicts it. WindStoke tells you the morning it’s coming, so you get more days on the water.

Since June 6 we’ve called it 40 mornings at Muskegon and it showed 23 times. The forecast had those afternoons at 9 kt. They blew 14.

  1. Sat Oct 3Forecast 7 ktBlew 13 ktNo lake breeze
  2. Tue Sep 29Forecast 8 ktBlew 13 ktCame in 4 pm
  3. Mon Sep 28Forecast 9 ktBlew 16 ktCame in 2 pm
  4. Sun Sep 27Forecast 7 ktBlew 18 ktCame in 1 pm
  5. Sat Sep 26Forecast 6 ktBlew 15 ktCame in 3 pm
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How this was measured

Called: our morning lake-breeze watch flagged that afternoon at Muskegon. Came in: the wind at the meter (MKGM4) turned onshore and built. Forecast: the model forecast’s afternoon peak for the spot as of that morning (HRRR). Blew: the afternoon’s peak sustained wind at the meter. 10 kt is about the least you can ride, on a big kite or a foil. The 9 and 14 kt above are averages over the called days it showed with a forecast on file (15). The last 5 calls are listed, misses included; 9 calls when the meter was down are left out. On the 62 mornings we stayed quiet, a lake breeze showed 9 times (every other graded morning, including the ones the watch saw primed but held back). Only spots where the call has beaten the quiet mornings get this card, and those are the spots it goes out from, by push or email.

What no other app does

Four things that change when you stop guessing and start knowing.

01Upwind Radar
WindStokenow
🔥 Port Washington jumped 8 → 19 kts. That meter is 28 miles upwind of your spot.

It watches the water upwind of you.

The local checks the meters up the shore before he loads the car. WindStoke checks all of them, and tells you the moment one upwind of you fires. It reports what the meter did and how far away it is — it won't tell you a minute the wind will arrive, because we can't measure that well enough yet to put a time on it.

02Virtual Station
WindStokelive
Estimated 19 kts at your sandbar. Nearest observation: 18.5 kts. No station within 8 miles.

It knows your spot.

Your favorite beach doesn't have a wind meter. WindStoke learns how your coordinates run against the nearest reporting station — direction by direction — and applies that to its live reading, so you get a number for your sandbar instead of the airport's.

03Session Match
WindStoke6:00 AM
Thursday matches 47 past sessions. Like Aug 14th, when you rated it 🔥. You wrote: "come earlier."

It remembers your best days.

Log your sessions. When those conditions return, your own words come back to you, like a buddy who was there and has a better memory than you do.

04Thermal Alert
WindStoke1:15 PM
🌡️ Afternoon NW thermal filling in at Muskegon, building to 16 kts. The forecast said East 8.

It feels the breeze the forecast misses.

On a sunny day the land bakes and the lake answers. A thermal cranks onshore while the forecast still reads dead. WindStoke learns each spot's afternoon sea breeze and pings you the moment it's igniting, hours before it peaks.

05Ask Jetty
Ask Jettyjust now
"Worth burning a vacation day for Thursday at Muskegon?"
Thursday's your day. SW 18 to 22 filling in late morning and holding into the evening, and three of four models agree on it. Friday's the one I'd skip. It swings east and dies by noon.

It answers in plain English.

Ask it anything about your spots the way you'd text a buddy who's already looked. Jetty reads your actual forecast, not the internet, so every number in the answer comes from the data. When the models disagree, he says so instead of picking one to sound confident. He's named after Jetty, the guy who used to answer these questions on our old blog.

The wind the forecast doesn’t have.

MUSKEGON · MKGM4 · SEPTEMBER 6, 2026

measured windwhat the model heldwind it didn’t havewind was onshore

The model said 7.3 knots. We said 15. It blew 17.1.One good day is an illustration, not evidence. The evidence is the whole record: of every lake-breeze alert we have sent and since graded, 31 of 48 were confirmed.

How a lake breeze forms: the sun heats the land, the hot air over it rises, and cooler air over the lake flows in to replace it. That inflow is the onshore wind at the beach. LAKE LAND The sun bakes the land, and the hot air over it rises. Cooler air over the lake slides in to take its place. NNW 17.1 kt at the beach, from 3:00 PM How a lake breeze forms: the sun heats the land, the hot air over it rises, and cooler air over the lake flows in to replace it. That inflow is the onshore wind at the beach. LAKE LAND The sun bakes the land. Hot air rises. Cooler air over the lake slides in. NNW 17.1 kt at the beach, from 3:00 PM

and here is the day it happened

Measured wind at Muskegon on 2026-09-06 from 7:00 AM, against the single figure the model held for that afternoon. 0 6 12 18 KT 7A 10A 1P 4P 7P 10P MODEL HELD 7.3 KT ALL DAY the wind the model didn’t have WE SAID 15 KT NNW, 7:00 AM it fired 4:45 PM 17.1 kt at 6:10 PM SHADED = WIND CAME ONSHORE AMERICA/DETROIT Measured wind at Muskegon on 2026-09-06 from 7:00 AM, against the single figure the model held for that afternoon. 0 6 12 18 KT 7A 10A 1P 4P 7P 10P MODEL HELD 7.3 KT WE SAID 15 KT NNW, 7:00 AM it fired 4:45 PM 17.1 kt at 6:10 PM SHADED = WIND CAME ONSHORE

Every point is one observation from MKGM4 — 144 of them that day — timestamped UTC and redrawn in America/Detroit. The dashed line is the single figure the model held for that afternoon, recorded that morning before any of this happened; the chart opens at the hour we sent the watch, and the shaded band is every reading that came in above it, on a morning reading air 77°F over water 71°F.

What a lake breeze is, how we spot one coming, and the record of every call — on the forecast FAQ →

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The forecast isn’t wrong. It’s wrong differently at every beach.

NWS VS MEASURED WIND · 81 METERS · 0-5H AHEAD · 64 DAYS

the national forecastafter we correct it

At Oak St., Chicago the national forecast promises 4.9 knots that never show up. At Fort Gratiot it misses 2 that do. We shade every forecast by what that beach’s own meter has been measuring.So we don’t serve you the national number. Every forecast is shaded by what that spot’s own meter measured the last time we made the same forecast there.

OAK ST., CHICAGOaveraged over 556 forecasts
national forecast4.9 kt too much wind
after we correct it3.1 kt too much wind

↓ 1.8 kt closer at this beach

FORT GRATIOTaveraged over 890 forecasts
national forecast2 kt too little wind
after we correct it0.3 kt too little wind

↓ 1.7 kt closer at this beach

All 81 meters we have measured, each one tick on a knots axis. Left of centre the forecast promised more wind than the meter saw; right of centre it promised less. The two ends are the beaches named above. EVERY METER WE HAVE MEASURED — 81 OF THEM Oak St., Chicago: -4.88 kt over 556 forecasts Fernandina Beach: -3.44 kt over 858 forecasts Sturgeon Point Light: -3.31 kt over 345 forecasts Mayport , FL: -3.02 kt over 559 forecasts Marblehead: -2.92 kt over 890 forecasts Ashtabula Lighthouse: -2.67 kt over 890 forecasts Toledo: -2.65 kt over 891 forecasts Ludington: -2.64 kt over 890 forecasts Manistee Harbor: -2.53 kt over 1,119 forecasts Muskegon Buoy: -2.34 kt over 554 forecasts Duluth: -2.09 kt over 890 forecasts Big Sable Point: -1.98 kt over 1,145 forecasts Holland Buoy: -1.88 kt over 874 forecasts Mayport (Bar Pilots Dock): -1.85 kt over 871 forecasts Cleveland: -1.83 kt over 890 forecasts Navy Fuel Depot, St Johns River: -1.73 kt over 818 forecasts Ludington Buoy: -1.57 kt over 786 forecasts Blount Island Command, St Johns River: -1.53 kt over 857 forecasts Northerly Isle: -1.51 kt over 889 forecasts Los Angeles Badger Avenue Bridge: -1.50 kt over 526 forecasts Jacksonville Craig Municipal Airport: -1.47 kt over 819 forecasts Michigan City Buoy: -1.45 kt over 857 forecasts Geneva on the Lake Light: -1.44 kt over 788 forecasts South Bass Island: -1.36 kt over 891 forecasts Frankfort/Dow Mem, MI: -1.35 kt over 877 forecasts Calumet Harbor: -1.34 kt over 890 forecasts Port Inland: -1.32 kt over 364 forecasts Santa Monica Basin - 33NM WSW of Santa Monica: -1.31 kt over 795 forecasts Oswego: -1.30 kt over 890 forecasts Thunder Bay Island: -1.27 kt over 533 forecasts Port Hope: -1.15 kt over 869 forecasts ATW20 - Atwater Park: -1.11 kt over 439 forecasts Fulton/Oswego Cnty, NY: -1.09 kt over 889 forecasts Milwaukee: -1.06 kt over 543 forecasts Cook Nuclear Plant Buoy, Stevensville: -0.98 kt over 874 forecasts Muskegon County Airport: -0.96 kt over 881 forecasts Kewaunee MET: -0.94 kt over 890 forecasts Holland - West Michigan Regional Airport: -0.93 kt over 876 forecasts Manitowoc Muni, WI: -0.92 kt over 881 forecasts GRAYS REEF - 40 NM Southeast of Savannah: -0.90 kt over 610 forecasts Fairport: -0.87 kt over 364 forecasts Wilmette Buoy: -0.82 kt over 883 forecasts Gerald R. Ford International: -0.82 kt over 454 forecasts Cherry Capital Airport: -0.78 kt over 877 forecasts Mackinaw City: -0.75 kt over 890 forecasts Vermilion River at Lake Erie: -0.63 kt over 885 forecasts Salmon Unlimited Wisconsin: -0.63 kt over 670 forecasts Waukegan Buoy: -0.62 kt over 881 forecasts Michigan City: -0.47 kt over 544 forecasts Ludington/Mason Cnty, MI: -0.46 kt over 876 forecasts Gravelly Shoal Light: -0.43 kt over 357 forecasts Winthrop Harbor Buoy: -0.35 kt over 866 forecasts Cadillac/Wexford Cnty, MI: -0.34 kt over 863 forecasts Manistee/Blacker Arpt, MI: -0.33 kt over 610 forecasts Buffalo: -0.27 kt over 890 forecasts Barcelona Harbor: -0.24 kt over 890 forecasts Chicago Buoy: -0.23 kt over 284 forecasts Olcott Harbor: -0.18 kt over 890 forecasts NORTH MICHIGAN- Halfway between North Manitou and Washington Islands.: -0.18 kt over 876 forecasts SAN CLEMENTE BASIN - 27NM SE Of San Clemente Is: -0.16 kt over 757 forecasts Kenosha Light, Kenosha: -0.14 kt over 854 forecasts Mackinac Straits West, Mackinaw City: -0.08 kt over 819 forecasts Port Wing: +0.00 kt over 884 forecasts Saginaw Bay Light #1: +0.03 kt over 882 forecasts Fremont Muni, MI: +0.06 kt over 876 forecasts Presque Isle Light: +0.13 kt over 802 forecasts Sheboygan: +0.25 kt over 891 forecasts Sleeping Bear Dunes: +0.28 kt over 822 forecasts Huron Harbor Light: +0.39 kt over 890 forecasts SILVER BAY: +0.45 kt over 891 forecasts Port Washington: +0.46 kt over 890 forecasts Rochester Coast Guard: +0.46 kt over 878 forecasts Grand Traverse Light: +0.72 kt over 890 forecasts Harbor Beach: +0.89 kt over 890 forecasts Chicago: +1.09 kt over 727 forecasts Grand Marais: +1.09 kt over 890 forecasts Holland: +1.17 kt over 1,132 forecasts Muskegon CG Station, Muskegon: +1.37 kt over 727 forecasts Alpena Harbor Light: +1.52 kt over 543 forecasts South Haven Light, South Haven: +1.53 kt over 728 forecasts Fort Gratiot: +2.03 kt over 890 forecasts -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 +1 +2 +3 0 ◀ RAN HIGH RAN LOW ▶ 41 of 81 miss by over a knot All 81 meters we have measured, each one tick on a knots axis. Left of centre the forecast promised more wind than the meter saw; right of centre it promised less. The two ends are the beaches named above. EVERY METER WE HAVE MEASURED — 81 OF THEM Oak St., Chicago: -4.88 kt over 556 forecasts Fernandina Beach: -3.44 kt over 858 forecasts Sturgeon Point Light: -3.31 kt over 345 forecasts Mayport , FL: -3.02 kt over 559 forecasts Marblehead: -2.92 kt over 890 forecasts Ashtabula Lighthouse: -2.67 kt over 890 forecasts Toledo: -2.65 kt over 891 forecasts Ludington: -2.64 kt over 890 forecasts Manistee Harbor: -2.53 kt over 1,119 forecasts Muskegon Buoy: -2.34 kt over 554 forecasts Duluth: -2.09 kt over 890 forecasts Big Sable Point: -1.98 kt over 1,145 forecasts Holland Buoy: -1.88 kt over 874 forecasts Mayport (Bar Pilots Dock): -1.85 kt over 871 forecasts Cleveland: -1.83 kt over 890 forecasts Navy Fuel Depot, St Johns River: -1.73 kt over 818 forecasts Ludington Buoy: -1.57 kt over 786 forecasts Blount Island Command, St Johns River: -1.53 kt over 857 forecasts Northerly Isle: -1.51 kt over 889 forecasts Los Angeles Badger Avenue Bridge: -1.50 kt over 526 forecasts Jacksonville Craig Municipal Airport: -1.47 kt over 819 forecasts Michigan City Buoy: -1.45 kt over 857 forecasts Geneva on the Lake Light: -1.44 kt over 788 forecasts South Bass Island: -1.36 kt over 891 forecasts Frankfort/Dow Mem, MI: -1.35 kt over 877 forecasts Calumet Harbor: -1.34 kt over 890 forecasts Port Inland: -1.32 kt over 364 forecasts Santa Monica Basin - 33NM WSW of Santa Monica: -1.31 kt over 795 forecasts Oswego: -1.30 kt over 890 forecasts Thunder Bay Island: -1.27 kt over 533 forecasts Port Hope: -1.15 kt over 869 forecasts ATW20 - Atwater Park: -1.11 kt over 439 forecasts Fulton/Oswego Cnty, NY: -1.09 kt over 889 forecasts Milwaukee: -1.06 kt over 543 forecasts Cook Nuclear Plant Buoy, Stevensville: -0.98 kt over 874 forecasts Muskegon County Airport: -0.96 kt over 881 forecasts Kewaunee MET: -0.94 kt over 890 forecasts Holland - West Michigan Regional Airport: -0.93 kt over 876 forecasts Manitowoc Muni, WI: -0.92 kt over 881 forecasts GRAYS REEF - 40 NM Southeast of Savannah: -0.90 kt over 610 forecasts Fairport: -0.87 kt over 364 forecasts Wilmette Buoy: -0.82 kt over 883 forecasts Gerald R. Ford International: -0.82 kt over 454 forecasts Cherry Capital Airport: -0.78 kt over 877 forecasts Mackinaw City: -0.75 kt over 890 forecasts Vermilion River at Lake Erie: -0.63 kt over 885 forecasts Salmon Unlimited Wisconsin: -0.63 kt over 670 forecasts Waukegan Buoy: -0.62 kt over 881 forecasts Michigan City: -0.47 kt over 544 forecasts Ludington/Mason Cnty, MI: -0.46 kt over 876 forecasts Gravelly Shoal Light: -0.43 kt over 357 forecasts Winthrop Harbor Buoy: -0.35 kt over 866 forecasts Cadillac/Wexford Cnty, MI: -0.34 kt over 863 forecasts Manistee/Blacker Arpt, MI: -0.33 kt over 610 forecasts Buffalo: -0.27 kt over 890 forecasts Barcelona Harbor: -0.24 kt over 890 forecasts Chicago Buoy: -0.23 kt over 284 forecasts Olcott Harbor: -0.18 kt over 890 forecasts NORTH MICHIGAN- Halfway between North Manitou and Washington Islands.: -0.18 kt over 876 forecasts SAN CLEMENTE BASIN - 27NM SE Of San Clemente Is: -0.16 kt over 757 forecasts Kenosha Light, Kenosha: -0.14 kt over 854 forecasts Mackinac Straits West, Mackinaw City: -0.08 kt over 819 forecasts Port Wing: +0.00 kt over 884 forecasts Saginaw Bay Light #1: +0.03 kt over 882 forecasts Fremont Muni, MI: +0.06 kt over 876 forecasts Presque Isle Light: +0.13 kt over 802 forecasts Sheboygan: +0.25 kt over 891 forecasts Sleeping Bear Dunes: +0.28 kt over 822 forecasts Huron Harbor Light: +0.39 kt over 890 forecasts SILVER BAY: +0.45 kt over 891 forecasts Port Washington: +0.46 kt over 890 forecasts Rochester Coast Guard: +0.46 kt over 878 forecasts Grand Traverse Light: +0.72 kt over 890 forecasts Harbor Beach: +0.89 kt over 890 forecasts Chicago: +1.09 kt over 727 forecasts Grand Marais: +1.09 kt over 890 forecasts Holland: +1.17 kt over 1,132 forecasts Muskegon CG Station, Muskegon: +1.37 kt over 727 forecasts Alpena Harbor Light: +1.52 kt over 543 forecasts South Haven Light, South Haven: +1.53 kt over 728 forecasts Fort Gratiot: +2.03 kt over 890 forecasts -4 -2 +2 0 ◀ RAN HIGH RAN LOW ▶ 41 of 81 miss by over a knot

Each tick is one meter’s average signed error over 64,012 forecasts made 0-5h ahead across 64 days, every one graded against that meter’s own reading at that hour. 62 run high and 18 run low; 6 meters with fewer than 50 forecasts are left out rather than drawn thin, and meters that have not proven they can measure wind at all are excluded entirely. Across all 81 meters the correction is worth 0.19 kt of average error at this range — the two beaches above are the extremes, not the typical case — and its value fades to nothing past three days out.

Full method — the rolling window, the shrink, the 3 kt clamp and the rebuilt gust — on the forecast FAQ →

We test every model. You get the winner.

FORECAST LAB · 5 MODELS RACED · LAST 120 DAYS

behind the baselineahead, but under the bar

We race every model we can get at your spot, and serve whichever one wins. So far nothing has beaten NWS plus your own meter — which is how we know that is the right thing to be sending you.Not a default we settled on. A result we keep re-measuring, separately for every spot and every range, every night. The day a model wins there, your forecast switches to it and the forecast page says so.

Every forecast model we run, shown at the lead time where it came closest to beating NWS plus each station's own measured correction. None has beaten it by enough to earn a switch. NOW SERVING · EVERY RANGE WE HAVE SCORED NWS, corrected by your own station's measured error Decided per spot and per range, re-checked every night, and handed over the moment something beats it. EVERY CHALLENGER, AT THE RANGE WHERE IT CAME CLOSEST Blend Blend at 0-5h: +0.17 kt vs baseline, n=62,269 over 50 days 0.17 kt ahead best at 0-5h HRRR corrected HRRR at 72-95h: +0.12 kt vs baseline, n=96 over 1 days 0.12 kt ahead best at 72-95h NWS, uncorrected NWS at 144-168h: -0.03 kt vs baseline, n=54,221 over 44 days 0.03 kt behind best at 144-168h GFS corrected GFS at 6-11h: -0.31 kt vs baseline, n=60,123 over 48 days 0.31 kt behind best at 6-11h ECMWF corrected ECMWF at 72-95h: -0.33 kt vs baseline, n=56,513 over 45 days 0.33 kt behind best at 72-95h 64 RANGES SCORED SO FAR · 8 NOT MEASURED YET · 0 HAVE EARNED A SWITCH

Each bar is one model against the one we serve, over the same station-hours at the same lead, graded on what the meter actually read — shown at the range where that model came closest, which is the most generous reading of it we can give. Winning takes all four bars at once: 100 paired forecasts, across 14 separate days, a margin of 0.5 kt, and that margin bigger than twice its own error bar — and 0 have, which is why the table that records model switches is empty rather than missing.

The full board, all nine ranges, and what it takes for a model to earn a switch — on the forecast FAQ →

The receipts.

Every one of these is read straight out of our own record. Nothing here is written by hand.

The forecast missed it
On October 10 the models had Olcott Harbor topping out around 9 kt. We called an afternoon lake breeze that morning. It came in at 22 kt, 12° off the direction we called.
When we say no
The morning read says the engine never starts, and it has been right 178 times out of 178. Not one of those afternoons turned on.
Days worth rigging for
Across 84 verified days at Harbor Beach, the raw forecast stayed under 12 kt on 36 days that actually got there. We measure that gap and correct for it.
When we said go
Over the last 90 days we said go on 78 days and it blew on 55 of them. The other half of that number: 150 days turned out rideable and we had called 55 of them the night before. On the 95 we missed, the night-before forecast ran an average 7.1 kt under what the meter went on to read, and 50 of them were June–August days.
The call we did not make
On 653 of those mornings our lake-breeze model had already scored the afternoon, and we measured whether letting it overrule the overnight forecast would help. It would not: across 178 days the forecast called off, the model's strongest call was followed by a rideable afternoon 10% of the time, against 71% for the forecast's own go-calls. So it overrules nothing. What it does measure is the gap: on those days the meter beat the forecast by a median 4.3 kt — real, and still short of most riders' bar.

What early testers say.

Feedback from the riders testing it, on the lakes and on the coast.

"I stopped reading the hourly table. I ask Jetty if tomorrow is worth it and get a straight answer about my spot instead of a wall of numbers. When he hedges, I've learned to believe the hedge."
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Noah V.
Kiteboarding · Grand Haven
"I'm out in San Diego, a long way from the Michigan water this was built on, and it still reads my spot right. It knows my station runs a few knots light in the afternoon and fixes the number before I ever see it."
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Clint T.
San Diego, CA
"It's early days on the wave side and Jeff will tell you that himself. But the surf call has already been closer to what I actually paddled out into than anything else I can find for the lakes."
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John V.
Surfing · Frankfort

The nod.

You're at the trucks after a session. Wetsuit peeled down. Hands still trembling. Cold beer. Sand in your ears. People are still showing up, rigging in full wind, asking how you got here so early.

The legend is two spots over. Same beer. Same lean against the tailgate. He nods at you. Not a wave. Not a conversation. Just a nod.

And it hits you. You've been the second car in the lot a lot lately. Your name shows up in the group chat now. People have been asking you how you knew.

You nod back.

Who's building this

I'm not the legend. I just got tired of missing it.

A lone kiteboarder riding past a pier as big waves explode over it
That's me out there. Frankfort, Michigan, one of the good ones.

I'm Jeff. I kite in Michigan, and I build WindStoke — the forecast pipeline, the alerts, the app, the emails, the reply when you write in. There's no team.

This started in the early 2010s as a kiteboarding blog called Michigan Dawn Patrol that I ran with my buddy Matt. We were already trying to do what this app does — reading the upwind meters, calling the days, telling people when to drop everything and drive — but pulling in every model and tracking which one is actually right at your spot was a research project in 2012, not something one guy could ship. Now it is, so I'm building the system I always wanted: when it says it's going to be good, it's going to be good. Everything gets checked against what actually happened, and when I'm not sure, I say so.

Fair warning: it's not finished. You'll see rough edges, and I'd rather you hear that from me. What I won't do is tell you it's on when I don't believe it.

Matt posted on Dawn Patrol as "Jetty" — that's where Ask Jetty gets its name.

If something's wrong at your beach, tell me. I'm the one who reads it.

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Jeff
Kiteboarder · Michigan · Founder, WindStoke

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