High Surf Advisory

Welcome back to the east coast in the summer Zach. Waves over three feet high and comfortable water at the same time?? People are gonna die! "HIGH SURF ADVISORY"!! "Moderate to Severe Risk of Rip Currents"

 

I always assumed those were more for small craft and boaters.

 

Small craft advisories and gale warnings are more for boaters.

From the National Weather Service website:

"High Surf Advisory
A High Surf Advisory is issued when breaking wave action poses a threat to life and property within the surf zone. High surf criteria vary by region"

@Zach - that last part about high surf criteria vary by region is pretty much the Weather Service's way of saying when you moved from SD to SC you became a noob.


The weather service is pretty into warning you about sh1t if you ask me...

I wasnt really aware of any huge storms right now, but every place on the map below in color is where the NWS is warning you something dangerous is going on...Montana looks safe today. Meanwhile you could get hurt by the weather in Texas in at least a half dozen different ways. Damn lawyers.

 

Well, I don't know about property damage, but if an inexperienced beach goer were out in the surf today, they may have been in trouble. It was nasty, and about worthless for surfing. It wasn't the size of the waves, but the cross current was flowing like a river. I didn't mess with it. When we have 4 ft waves and glassy conditions, they never put up an advisory.

 

Aw, too bad. That kind of wind is tough. But better than being indoors, no?

 

I was out there as well Zach. From about 2:30-3:30. Current was quick, ****ty winds but I was surprised I got a few corners out at Burkes. Tomorrow looks to be even windier but Sunday pm High tide looks promising.

 

come out with me this afternoon on a jet ski and go to the outter bars lol probably

come out with me this afternoon on a jet ski and go to the outter bars lol huge out there. but in the next 2 days one afternoon should be solid when the winds dieoff/shift

 

it was big and choppy yesterday in VB. only one out was a kite surfer. The bad thing about constant on shore winds is the things it blows in from out there. Men o war are washing up in S Cakalacky. in Texas they're covering the whole beach with their stinging testicle, or tentacles.

 

I hate when I get my stinging testicle stepped on. They might as well. Honestly I'm surprised around here that we have our second over head swell in 2 weeks but I suppose it's because I''ve been surfing since january and it's been pretty flat until April (for the most part) here in Melbourne.

 

you guys down there have had box jellies in the line up last year. That's what you have to take with the warmer waters.

 

Today is worse than yesterday. Pretty bad when all the good surf shops are calling it totally blown out. Maybe tomorrow will clean up enough for me to get wet.

Chich, where did you hear jellies were washing up in the south?

 

http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php

http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=BH-20130504-39099-USA

 

Damn. That sucks.

 

where is this high surf warning,hawaii??im here on the eastcoast and never heard of such a thing.i was fishing yesterday,the wind sucked,must of been east winds blowin right off the ocean.i took a clip of an l out my cigg pack and the motherlover blew away and had to chase it down the beach,lucky I found it.my box of entemanns donuts blew over too,i ate more sand than donut,but there were 2 kayakers probably a mile out in the channel where the ships pass.i give those guys credit,if they flipped over,they weren't making it back to land

 

i got a question for some of u,do u ever paddle out and duckdive and come up wit hiccups.it gets me all the time and it sucks tryin to paddle for a wave when my body has a mild seizure