I'm smelling a skunk tommorow for Rhode Island. No way waist to chest. WAAAY too much west in this swell. It's WSW(252 degrees) 6.2 feet at 7 seconds and it's flat currently at 7:00pm on many south and east facing breaks.
How are you going to call a blown forecast, before it even arrives... For Rhode Island, you will see there are 2 different beach facing directions. S facing beaches is the default: http://www.swellinfo.com/surf-forecast/newport-rhode-island.html For E facing beaches: http://www.swellinfo.com/surf-forecast/newport-rhode-island-e.html You will see Swellinfo is showing only minor swell getting into the east facers. There will definitely be surf at the south exposures... Just a matter of finding that compromise between clean surf and more size The primary swell direction will be coming from the SSW.
The swell has arrived. According to your forecast it should be nearly chest high. It's over 6 feet right now on the buoy. I was staring at s south facing break in western RHode Island at 7:00pm and it was flat. And by flat I mean FLAT. A 252 degree swell doesn't get into the majority of south facing breaks. Rhody doesn't handle west swells well. SW absolutely, but not a due west swell or wsw(degree of direction and size/period dependant). If you head west over rhode island, you run into land or long island sound, not ocean. Therefore not much fetch. lol Not a knock on your site. All the forecasts sites are calling for the swell, but I've seen this scenario before when it's got too much west in it. I HOPE I'm wrong. If the primary direction switches to ssw or even sw we are in business.
The majority of the swell will fill in overnight as the southerly fetch from the Mid Atlantic reaches your area. The beginning short period wind swells can float on by easily, but the long period fetch usually doesn't get blown out as easily by the westerly current. The tucked away areas, like Naragansett wont see much with these swells, while the more exposed spots to the east should. Give it a check in the morning.
If you know better than the forecasting sites what will be happening at your break, then that's great for you right? You know what the swell will be while everyone else follows the sites. So if it's good you'll be the one out while others are in and if it's bad you won't waste the gas while others are messing around chasing random swells. So what exactly are you complaining about if you think you know what the swell will be anyway?
All the excitement all week long just to see a damn w in front of the sw on the buoy. Let down! Hopefully it's just that westerly current and it will in tommorw
we started getting swell today in NJ when it was forcasted to be pretty much nothing. im nervous about tomorrow.
Swell in Montauk this afternoon. Got a few good ones in. Tomorrow is going to be a washing machine though. Saturday should clean up.
Hopely it is not going to be as bad as yesterday but their calling for 6 ft at 7 seconds in wildwood. Now the question is it going to be glassy and amazing ( haha b.s.) or crappy dumping slop ( now thats more understandable)
My god, why you gotta make rhody look bad. Not only are you whining before the swell even fills is, you clearly have no idea what tides are. Rhode Island spots, from what I have found, are super detrimental with the tides. One spot will be flat while one just down the street is chest high, keep your eye on it and start driving, and check different tides. Even better idea, dont look at the forecast, just go check it yourself.
oh and I checked matunuck at about 12pm yesterday when the wind was picking up, easily thigh to waist high with the tide filling in. Green Hill was flat and thats about 3 miles down the road.
Ya, the south exposures like Matanuck are going to pick these swells up much more then the tucked away areas in Naragansett and such. Its a little tricky to have one forecast region for the diverse geography in RI, but the 2 different forecasts for East and South facing beaches are hopefully helpful.
hate to chime in, but... knee high. the swell direction is straight south. watched those waves head straight north. Fifty people in the water this am tho tearing up some knee high junk. maybe they still think this is a chest high wave. ha.
swell direction is SW. the little short period swell that there is is moving AWAY from east facing beaches. i've learned my lesson about these swells - do not get remotely excited for them. unless you're somewhere south facing, you're going to get skunked.
Looks like there is swell to me.. 1 to 3 foot...as predicted.. http://thesurfersview.com/live-beach-cams/central-new-jersey/belmar http://thesurfersview.com/live-beach-cams/central-new-jersey/casino-pier-north https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3491446280336&set=o.261650307187822&type=1&theater https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?...30685076.47887.120443917979648&type=1&theater
