Storm coming across Atlantic from Europe

where do you get a 180 hour forecast .....please

 

Very rare to see that. Could provide us goofy footers a decent swell if it holds. It's been about 2 years since I've seen something decent from that direction.

 

Where is this hitting?

 

does seem like a very unusual pattern...im intrigued...

 

voila..my 180 hour forecast http://www.stormsurf.com/locals/virginia.shtml

OP i do see the storm that you are talking about, but idk seems kinda early to make any good calls, those things constantly change. so i wouldnt get my hopes up just yet

 

I admit, I'm intrigued as well. Now stop hyping it up so there is an actual swell event. Everybody just go about their business and find some wood to knock on.

 

I don't see any storm moving from Europe across the Atlantic. I see lows forming in the mid Atlantic and moving off toward Europe.

 

180hrs is a long long long time. I don't believe in anything past 96hrs and even that is a stretch. My waste mental energy on a 1/2% chance of something happening.

 

you can't look at it today... you have to look at it 'the day after' tomorrow. lol.

 

Go to Swellinfo Wave Maps, zoom out to North Atlantic.
The low really develops in the Central Atlantic Waters, which is not that uncommon, we just had a swell like this a couple weeks ago. These ENE ground swells are most typical in the Spring time.

It is also helpful to look at the wave period maps to see how the swell is dispersing in time.

 

If we're lucky and the lows form, consolidate and spin up as forecast, we should have waves for most of next week.

 

Not to take away from Swellinfo's awesome tools, here's another source picking on up on the same trend:

http://magicseaweed.com/msw-surf-charts2.php?chart=22&res=750&type=swell&starttime=1335744000

 

Looks like the storm of the century re-make. I'll go out on a limb and say this model is too good to be true. I hope I'm wrong.

 

hope this holds.

 

This could be.. (in my alec baldwin voice)..the perfect storm.
not really, my guess is we get some 15 sec 2-3 footers for a few days. It is a massive area of fetch though.

 

I wonder if this will bring any goodness to South Florida...(fingers crossed)

 

not trying to diss swellinfo for not having extra long range forecast past 7 days for legit accuracy reasons, buttttttttttttttttttttt msw and surflines lola 14 day forecasts definetly have some large bumps showing past monday

 

Its a series of 3 areas of Low Pressure. 2 upper level lows and a surface low. There is a low area of pressure stalled off Europe due to the blocking high over middle of Europe. The low that may produce us a 2-3ft medium period swell is the upper level low moving up into Greenland right now. There is an Arctic area of high pressure that will force that upper level low back down and will combine with the surface low heading out to sea tomorrow. This upper level low than will be come a cut off low. It will be blocked in by the stalled low off Europe. As this is happening the Arctic high will push the low down and will hover out our way on friday than move off to into Europe as the Area of high pressure pulls further out to sea. This event should not make much if any. Looking out into the long range there maybe a NE swell for people north of Cape Cod on Monday, Tuesday (7,8 of May) The best way to think of something like this is gears. You have one big gear turning clock wise above to other gears moving counter clock wise below it.

500mb Map. Thats wind you see not swell. Hope this helps.

 

Well, you pretty much just killed this thread and anyone's hopes for being in a good mood for the rest of the week.