Just taking a look at some of the offshore buoys, it looks like the swell is lagging behind for the offshore buoy off of hatteras as compared to Swell Info model forecast: http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=41001 The Buoys closest to the storm, north of the Caribbean Islands are right on target for swell heights though (as compared to Swell Info output), so maybe we'll see a slower arrival of the long period swells moving for the front part of this swell. It is tricky through, because sometimes the buoys can actually be a bit deceiving... There may be bigger long period swells out there, that the buoy output that we read doesn't shot, because the consistency of the front part of this swell is very low.
how will your predictions change for vb and obx? Does this also mean that wind predictions will change? Just wanted to know because im about to book a campsite in hatty. Thanks Swellinfo, keep up the good work!!!
Just looking at some of the initial readings on some of the offshore buoys, could be lagging behind 6-10 hours.
hopefully mon cty sees this windswell.. i don't feel like driving all over the place tomorrow morning
i just got back from the beach (DE) and while there is tons of S chop, you can see the long period stuff every couple minutes. Nothing much more than waist high for the long PD stuff, and the chop is just insane...must be blowing 20 sideshore.
true.. what i meant was it would likely be bigger south w/ the groundswell mixed in. buoy at 4.9ft @ 4.5 so it's def not showing igor yet.
if you look at the details of the buoy, you will see the breakdown of total wave height, and swell height / wind wave height. These categories are important in analyzing multiple concurrent swells.
I'm interested to see how the long period swell tomorrow interacts with decently strong windswell tomorrow. Will it just be steep angle south swell with longer closed out lines every so often? or will they combine to make better conditions?
A lot of times, the more angled swell (s wind swell), will help break up the long lines... creating more peaky conditions.
