Santa Rosa Island / Leeside Bay Side, Florida (USA)

NW Florida is usually dominated by stagnant high pressure, resulting in light winds 4-9 kts most of the time. The best most stable winds are from SW and 15 kt good days. Spring and fall bring a few weeks of Northerly winds, with good weather and very ridable 25kts on occasion. The thunderheads sometimes bring some wind, but don't be tempted, better to wait for clear skys.

25-35°C in the summer, more comfortable in spring, March and April, and fall, October and November. Starts to cool off by end of November, then average 32°C and down to just freezing with wind chill with North winds. Florida is known to have the highest fatality rate in the states from lightning strikes. Being in the water doesn't keep you save.

The bay side with 100m wide sand bar of waist deep water is also suitable for offshore winds, with caution, sand bar drops off to boating channel, although across the channel are shallows to help recovery, relaunching etc. The channel is more than a "boating channel" it is a commercial shipping channel with substantial amounts of barge traffic. Even the very best local riders stay away from it.