Saturday worthless and Sunday amazing?

thats what i have been reading too. Can't wait to get some real waves for a change. Hopefully it will stick around for a couple days.

 

Yes, the Sunday Outlook looks nothing short of Excellent right now. It will be a mix of both increasing Ike swell and fading Hanna swell. It will be interesting to see how these swells mix. Time to get mentally prepared.

 

well if superfish busts a nut all over the atlantic, i guess it would stick around for a while.....

 

the paddle out could be tiring huh? Question: When two separate swells mix what is the usual trend? When they piggyback does the swell size change or just power? like if a 5ft mixes with a 8 ft swell, what would the size be? 8? 13? or somewhere inbetween. I'm talking about hypothetical single swell and single swell. Does that make sense?

 

the open ocean swells act independently as they propagate toward the coast. When the shoaling process takes place and the waves start to break, then the shape of the wave can certainly be influenced.

It may be a good situation, since a lot of times, the long period ground swells can close out. If there is a mixed swell, then maybe the long period swells from IKE will become more peaky.

But, to answer your question, an 8ft swell, and a 5ft swell, does not make a 13ft swell.

 

And long period swells close out more because they shoal up more parallel to the beach?

Also, why are long period swell affected so much more than tides?

I know it's kinda late so if you want to answer those tomorrow, that's cool. I appreciate the answers though.

 

The energy of the long period swells goes deeper into the ocean, and so the depth of the water (influenced by tides) is much more influential on these longer period swells. The higher tide is generally better for long period swells, because this allows less of the energy to dissipate offshore. Make sense?

 

AHHAH! Crystal Clear! muchas gracias

 

I recall a swell I think was 9 years ago when we had storms lined up further out - we had chest high waves all week and then sunday morning with a hurricane ne of us and one se of us at about equal distance we had 2' overhead a-frame barrels w/no wind for dawn patrol, I still think those were some of the best waves I've ever surfed.

Any chance therse two combining swells could give us more defined peaks ?

 

im only thirteen ive been in 7-9 do u think there a lot of rip because im looking for some misty tubes and nice drop ins do you guys nohow big they will be

 

your in luck, there is a web site to tells you how big the surf will be

there will be a lot of energy in the water, so know your limits.

 

I am confused by the forecast. (Not that that is terribly hard to do.)

How can Sunday's forecast call for it to be clean with NW winds 15-20 knots in the morning when Monday's says there will be a sideshore texture/chop with NW winds of only 5-10 knots?

Thanks in advance.

P.S. I have made a pledge to use more emoticons!

 

I noticed that too...only thing i could fugure is maybe some north in it since southern delaware call is for N.

 

i think it says "sideshore texture/chop" because of the forecasted shift to the SE

 

you may have found an error here... i'm looking into it... in any case, the latest data is showing very light winds, so I"m looking for fairly clean conditions on monday morning before the wind turn onshore.

 

Are you still calling for clean conditions with a 15-20 knot NW wind on Sunday morning?

 

no offense but i've noticed the color system has been off since coming to this site

 

sunday looks good. I just updated the wind conditions forecast for ocean city, md, because of the error with the NW winds. I'll keep an eye on it.

 

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