Saturday thru Monday!

Definitely keeping my fingers crossed, cause Surfline is only saying 1 - 2, however this sites predictions are usually better... still early.

 

Does the jinx work in reverse if everybody just figures on it being flat? Everybody: plan on spending the weekend at the in-laws and schedule a whole lot of meetings for monday.

 

not getting stoked

Im not getting too stoked either. Magic Seaweed is also saying only knee high for sunday so its 2 against one Surfline and Magicseaweed vs. swell info. Who do you think will be right?

 

in all likely hood...all three will be right...it will be knee high in some places and wiast-stomach in others. It looks like another steeply angled s/ssw wind swell. just like a couple of weeks ago when everyone seemed shocked/pissed at the internet gods that certain spots were knee high and others waist-chest when it has always been that way in these setups. These glancing s/sw swells will hit better at spots that are exposed to the south but maybe with a bit of wind protection and bottom contours/structures to focus a bit of swell into a peak ...use your imagination.

 

i sortof like the way surfline does things... They only provide a "detailed" forecast for the short-term. Then they have a paragraph explaining the possibilities for the longer range forecast, giving a "discussion" of possible approaching systems, and what their impact COULD be.

For me, this not only gives me an idea of what could happen, but also what could go wrong, and thus a realistic idea of the future. Is there any way swellinfo can add this type of "discussion" paragraph, explaining WHY were calling for waves in the distant future? And also possible problems and hurdles this system/low/storm/hurricane/Nor'Easter will have to overcome before giving us waves?

 

magic seaweed sucks. they never get the forecast right
thats why we use this site : )

 

It says it's a South swell at 7-8 seconds, so it'll be windswell. If by anychance the swell direction moves west a few degrees, wouldn't that actually make this a hit or miss swell?

Edit: Mitchell already answered my question.

 

its a SW wind swell scenario - so definitely too far down the line to have any certainty at this point. As the weather model guidance changes, so does the surf forecast.

For Central New Jersey, often the beginning stages of the SW wind swell is often over estimated, when the periods are very short - 4-7 seconds. As the swell peaks the longer period S wind swell makes it into more areas in the Central NJ area.

 

Mr Swellinfo, can you please give me some good news for this weekend in virginia beach, I have a contest on saturday and sunday and im dieing to compete, but it will probally be cancelled if the surf is flat

 

SW winds?....i wouldn't get too crazy about this swell event....sounds like a repeat of 2-3 weeks ago when everyone on this site collectively lost their sh!t...

 

aaaaaaahhhhhh!!!

F !! these optimistic forecasts, i am heart broken to see sun and mon go from chest clean to **** and barley clean



douche nozzles!!

 

I need some f***king surf.

 

Were you not able to surf on Monday or Tuesday?

 

Just throwing in my 2 cents. April and early may are always flat on the east coast. Its has been for as long as I can remember. This time of year is always the worst flat spell of the year. Mid to late may there is usually some kinda swell, almost gods little gift before the flatness of summer. Like june, ughhhhh, you pray for thigh high shorebreak

 

You jinxed it !!!!

 

....over time, i think that swellinfo seems to provide the most accurate info (for most locations), - i thought that was due to that fact that magic seaweed's data was coming from buoys placed in open water in deeper locations. am i correct?

 

ill believe it when i see it

 

We get tons of SW wind swell down here in the Southeatern NC and I have learned not to get too hyped up about them. There is only one spot that works because of a breakwall that blocks the drift and some wind coming from that direction. Most of the other spots are side shore drifty peaks that are mushy rights and walled up sectiony lefts. We cant fcuking buy NW winds down here and if we could I would be one broke as s nugga!

 

April being flat is just not true. For the past 3 years, we have had a huge Northeaster which produced the best swell of the year. WE are overdue for a storm and it will happen sooner than later, I have faith I'll surf again.