Today's the most recent of several days lately that has unreal weather when forecast called for crap. Not complaining in the least. However, there have been a few recent mini-swells that never came to be after reports touting their impending arrival. Any correlation here? All I can think of is good weather = high pressure and high pressure = no waves so when the weather clears the swell clears out. Starchy, since you back now bro, hows about you get started on this? Swell in the medium period coming in the next two days with good weather also. Not upset about that but I'm sharpening a bayonet and glassing it on the nose of my board for kook protection tomorrow in case any of them get ...lost in my path.
Not sure. The weather patterns down here in the spring and summer are almost always off. It calls for 40-60% heavy rains all the time. The timelines will say it will rain all morning into the afternoon. Everytime, it drizzles for about 5 minutes out of nowhere and never comes back. I wake up each day and just follow the radar and the storm paths. Works like a charm... The weather patterns are WAY more unpredictable than the swells down here. For swells, we dont have any weird coastline bends or blockages so pretty much, the swell predictions have been on point. The weather on the other hand, not so much. Its amazing how these storm paths coming from Florida and over by the panhandle head right for us but then shoot up north about 30 miles inland, never touching us. Especially during minor swell events. Minor swell events this time of year usually include onshore wind flow with the local wind swell and that fights off the patches of rain.... I could see how swells would dicipate up north though, especially with prevailing offshore winds fighting off the swell lines... Basically the opposite of whats been happening down here. When there is minor swell, it usually fights off the storms, which most commonly come from the south and south west of here.... Not an exact science, but it makes sense on certain levels... Going to be waist to chest down here tomorrow around high tide. Excited. Today was 2.1ft at 11 seconds, which was actually super fun, albeit small. Again, very close to what SI had said it would be, but it actually ended up being a little bigger at a slightly longer period.... The tables will turn though and sh** will get all jacked up down here and not make any sense and things will pan out up in the NE the way its predicted..... who knows. I think weather forecasting is HORRIBLE on the entire east coast. I forgot how bad it was living in San Diego.... Where its the same damn thing, every single day, anchorman style... I tell my wife every weekend, DONT worry about what the weather channel said, we will follow the radar and act accordingly. Works everytime. If we had listened to the forecasts, we would have skipped numerous festivals and days at the beach,,,,
Ahh, Emass taking a clue from EL ZORBA CRUZ from Oxnard, CA. He used to put razors on his nose. Rough crowd around the Silver Strand. SSL. South Carolina swell predicting is easy - 1-2 foot occasional 3 footer. Or Flat. LOL !! When the sun comes up in the morning the waves disappear. Did you guys know that during the twilight hours every spot is OH-DOH. No, really. If there are clouds then the waves jack up to about 3-4'. If it is partly cloudy the waves can come and go. Sunny days are always flat to maybe 1 foot. The east coast is just no fun. One of the more strange, clueless questions concerning east coast wave production. It really isn't that difficult. 98% of the east's swells are wind swells produced by passing low pressure systems......cold fronts and stuff, ya dig? They come from the west. They can develop in the Ohio Valley. They can form in the Gulf or off the Carolinas. Then they head east or Northeast. ( this is the rule, not the exceptions) The wind goes onshore. The waves build. The storm heads out to sea. The winds usually switches to an offshore direction. NW please. The surf cleans up.......depending on the offshore wind speed and how quickly the storm jets out into the north Atlantic will determine how quickly the waves will fade. That's it in a nutshell. It's not some mystery. Basically it's all about the winds, baby. Weather forecasting isn't an exact science in case you haven't noticed that yet. Ask Wayne what the weather will be, as only Jesus knows. But He don't really care about the weather.
