Eight!!!!!

yes, Yes, YEs, YES!!!!!!!!!! Waves making waves, what a wonderful world

 

might be a good sept, lets hope the sandbars and winds cooperate


cool paragraph to read:

"Like the ocean, the atmosphere also has waves. Large-scale atmospheric waves form over Africa during the African summer monsoon season, track east to west, and emerge over the Atlantic Ocean near the Cape Verde Islands, where they often serve as the nucleus for a powerful Cape Verdes-type hurricane. Well, the African Easterly Wave Factory is exceptionally busy right now, and there are three very impressive looking waves with plenty of spin lined up across the continent (Figure 3).
The western-most wave, just coming off the coast of Africa today, is particularly impressive. This system has a very large circulation with plenty of spin, and is already developing some concentrated heavy thunderstorms over the waters south of the Cape Verde Islands. This morning's QuikSCAT pass saw winds of 50 mph near the heaviest thunderstorms. Wind shear is a moderate 10-20 knots over the storm, and is expected to remain in the low to moderate range the next few days. NHC has given this system a medium (20%-50%) chance of developing into a tropical depression by Saturday. The models have been very aggressive developing this system over the past few days, and chances are good that this system will become a large and powerful Cape Verdes-type hurricane next week."

 

salty j

I have lived on all three coast and the third coast gets a bad profile from people like yourself. You take what you can get and Texas has a great surf culture.

 

regardless this storm is going to suck. gonna jack up oil prices, and screw up a bunch of people. i wish they would drop ice cubes into the ocean instead of all those buoys!

 

If the storm stays on its predicted path...how long do you think the swell will stay around? Into friday perhaps? I know it wont be as good then but you get the point.

 

potential to stick around for a while - if it just hangs off the coast. the thing isn't doing too much right now - so its all speculation at this point.

 

My bad. Enjoy the 1.5 days of waves and side shore winds while others get annihilated.

 

path is looking terrible right now... is this going to throw us any swell?

 

For NJ it don't look like a cane that close to FL would give us any type of swell specially for Monday/Tuesday the way the track is going now. So I am not sure where the forecasts are getting this wave high because mostly all forecasts I look at are giving waist to chest right now. Then again I am the last person you would want to ask if we will get waves from this or not...

 

forecast will be adjusted in the evening update as the forecasted track has been shifted south.

 

still gettin a pulse from hannah even with the crappy track? I dig I dig.

 

ya, we should see some 3-4' surf in the delmarva / new jersey area, while hatteras will be pick up more energy.

This is dependent upon how Gustav behaves over the next 24-36 hours. All forecasts indicate fetch developing over this period towards us.

 

whats your problem bro? as east coast surfers gulf and atlantic alike we wait all year long for hurricanes to develop. you think your special or something cause you live in nj? if there was a hurricane headed straight towards north carolina sending a good fetch to nj i doubt you would be thinking about gas prices. its not our fault a hurricane just decided to come into the gulf, but we might as well surf what is coming and not have to keep our mouths shut on a forum that is talking about surfing. why dont you go cry on the tragedies of the world forum or something like that cause we aretalking about surfing here. have fun sufing your waist high waves up there while others in the bahamas and potentially florida are getting pounded by hanna. here on the west coast fl we are looking at 3 days solid swell with offshores most of the time. it hasnt been like that for years and i am damn hyped on it. though i feel sorry for those who have to endure the tragedy of the hurricane. i myself have been through andrew and charlie...