Strong winds at Point Reyes on Wednesday, February 7th, created an interesting phenomenon: a waterfall defying gravity.
The San Francisco Bay Area has been inundated with heavy rains and strong winds as two record-breaking atmospheric rivers descended on the West Coast, engulfing most of California in flash flooding and hurricane-like winds. (In fact, California received its first-ever Hurricane Force Wind Warning this past Saturday, per guidance by the SF Bay Area Chapter of the National Weather Service after 90 mph-plus winds were forecasted near Big Sur.)
Inverted waterfall today in Point Reyes. Video by lunaticloverbug pic.twitter.com/Yw38sFZwPo
— The West Marin Feed (@WestMarinFeed) February 8, 2024
Thankfully, the heavens have calmed much of this week, sans the occasional afternoon spat of rain. But that isn’t to say strong gusts have disappeared from the region.
Case and point: Wednesday’s blustery conditions along Point Reyes produced an upside-down waterfall… where the water rains up towards the clouds, not down to the sea beneath.
“Inverted waterfall today in Point Reyes,” reads a post on X published yesterday, February 7th, at 4:51 p.m. The post included an attached video by [at]lunaticloverbug showing one of the various waterfalls found along the coastal area blowing up into the heavens, besting gravity’s influence on the cascade.
According to Windfinder, wind gusts between 4pm and 7pm Wednesday measured as fast as 44mph at times, helping make sense of why the “inverted waterfall” was able to form in the first place.
We’re going to file this in our folder of “natural wonders that make the SF Bay Area” so magical.
