It is a tricky forecast and the models have not been consistent in showing the track of Sunday's L. If the L tracks south, we get a good NE fetch as the storm moves offshore. If it takes a more northerly track, we are SOL ($hit out of lefts...) If it drifts too far south, we lose the strong NE winds pointed at us. Tuesday models looked good. Wed not so good. Thur good again. today's puts the storm too far south to do us much good... Swell info model just reflects the uncertaintly in the model (s) it is based on.
hope pmoos is right, hey it's mostly sunny now when the weather channel said mostly cloudy so as much as i love swellinfo i hope the current forecast is wrong and there is some ne fetch thrown at us, i checked the gfs this morning and the low is coming out 90 degrees to hatteras with north wind from long island down eh
This is no weather phenomenon. The swell was simply jinxed by all the kooks who check this site 3 times a day and make a big deal out of a swell they see a week in advance. Nothing against Swellinfo, but everyone knows how quickly things can change within a day or two.
Are you certain that it's just the kooks that jinxed it and not partially because of the 'core guys that checked the site three times a day? Do you have data to back up your hypothesis? Did you conduct a double blind study?
hey guys... if you have been tracking east coast storms, you should by now that the models can be very fickle, and this particular system the models are having a tough time with. The Swellinfo model runs off the GFS winds, so any changes in the GFS will be reflected in the the Swellinfo wave model. The weekend weather forecasts will have the same problem as with the wave forecasts when dealing with systems like this.
straight up if the Low ends up going south of you ..you get fetch onshores and long duration ground swell if it goes north of you forget about it maybe a SW peak at the right bar or onshore slop <-----this is what has been flopping and 150 mile shift of the Low's track changes wave size at different breaks also intensity forecast of the Low (how big the waves will get) changes daily and calling something like this storm 7 days ..impossible anyway waves are looking sickkk for obx. tues-wed one of the them check out that period
Um... are we back on for tomorrow? https://www.fnmoc.navy.mil/ww3_cgi/dynamic/ww3.b.w_atl.sig_wav_ht.024.gif
