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I use Swellinfo, Surfline, and my Weather Channel App. Mostly though, I've been paying closer attention to the buoy than anything, which has been more accurate than any of the forecasts. It's actually been under called here lately for a change. Past couple weeks at least. For example, SI and SL forecasts will be only 1ft @ 8 seconds, but the buoy will be showing anywhere from 2 - 2.6ft @ 8 sec and in reality it's waist high out there at the right sand bar / tide. Sometimes after a DP session I'll check Surfline to see what they are reporting and I'll see how the forecaster / reporter is way off and I laugh. I've seen them report it's flat but I find knee / thigh high waves with waist high sets. It's all about sand reconne my friends. Sand F'ing reconne.

 

Personally I use likeliapp

Tells me where to throw everyone's shyte in thee water

 

lol - Those guys are f@gs.

 

I have a friend that consistently pulls an accurate forecast out his azz especially for the little sneakers that I love and most people miss. For the major swells I use my eyes from the dune and swellinfo.

 

I only go to SwellInfo for the premier surf boarting forecaste! For tides/fishing I go to Tides4fishing

 

NOAA, bouy reports (NDBC) and nothing else. All the commercial ones you list, suck--they owe it to their surf product advertisers to NEVER use the word "FLAT". If they do, nobody that surfs goes to the beach where surf products are sold.
With NOAA, I can make my own decisions, not be spoon fed by marketing morons.....

 

Maybe the "man" is lying to you

 

I love SI. great for a ballpark idea of what's on the horizon for the EC. 8 days out: anyone's guess. 5 days out: vague idea of what might happen. 3 days out: somewhat likely to be true. 12 hours out: 50% chance of being right.

When I'm on the west coast I just surf whenever the wind is light. I'll ask around for some tide info, but really no matter what it's going to be better than home.

Like the others have said: buoys, trends, local knowledge, memories of similar events in the past all combine to give you an idea of when and where to go. I have a friend who is always saying how lucky we get. Fuking idiot doesn't realize while hes home pounding meat i'm pouring over graphs and charts dialing sh*t down to the 5 minute window. Ignorance is bliss for some folks I suppose.

 

windguru.com is decent

 

Exactly!

 

Swellinfo is the greatest surf predictin website of all time. Even better than sites that ain't been invented yet.

NOW LET RCARTER FREE.

Thank you.

 

for cfl all you need is wavecaster.com
tippy is the man



o dsup

 

O Barry, did you know the terrible government steals your tax dollars to generate those buoys though? Sad!

Surfline and SI have been brutally honest about the total lack of surf IMO this summer. SI might show green, but 0-1 and Surfline almost never thinks conditions are good here in MA/RI even when they are passable. Yesterday Surfline had RI as poor and I surfed for 4 hours. They are simply not that accurate for NE (IMO, YMMV, etc...)

 

Looks like their forecast is just a bunch of links to other sources.

 

All forecasting is linked to sources. Swell info has a cool little niche with their graphical presentation of said data. NOAA is the source along with local knowledge. I like to look at larger trends too. Mitchell posted a perfect example of the different systems from the 20k mile view. Then Sisurf accurately pinpointed a very important data point relative to how a high pressure will/could drive swell trend. I kinda don't want it spoon fed to the masses but at same time see some room for improvement with the likes of SI

 

Any site linking Magicseaweed as a source is off my list lol

 

Wourde.

 

yeah, wind is harder to forecast than swell (changes more abruptly) and I find Wind Guru to be better than SI.