glitch / fudge factor

Its obviously not an exact science. Surfline's forecast for today was also much better than the actual condtions indicate. Swell and Surfline were close, within a foot of each others forecast, and both were off about 3 feet in size, unless there is any sort of groundswell that will help this minmal windswell today.
I just have to chock it up to " I got skunked on the wave call today". Not the first time it happened wont be the last. Swell info is great info and free makes it even better, but still doesnt change the fact that the board that is stiing in my truck right now ready to get wet right after work will probably be going back in the rack in my garage before it makes the water today unless it starts to turn on a bit.

 

steep south swell passed you by in VB. When we upgrade the forecast model, these circumstances will improve greatly. Hopefully, we can get this in place by summer.

 

If you actually surf in VB you would obviously know what happens on a South swell........it's not rocket science, look at a map.

 

i even know this, and im in NJ. this happens at least a dozen times a year

 

wind has been brutal today... buoy is SSW but the locals are NNW at 30-40, rain squalls coming through too.

 

I used to live in northern Monmouth County NJ and it was the same deal there. Back then we had no idea why but at my homebreak it would be knee high at best and 15 miles south it would be chest to head high and pumping. It wasn't until the internet and satellite imagery that we realized why it always sucked up there on super steep south swells. On less steep south swells it could work but on days like this the lines were heading right past us and straight to long Island.

 

Whoa...."Roid" Rage??

 

BAHAHAHA don't mess with "the stud" he will F you up!

 

Not really a **** statement, more of a duh statement. If I had a dollar for every thread asking why a short period south windswell didn't show up at their NE facing beach, I would have like 15 dollars.

And VB is beyond a NE facing beach, it has 200 miles of sandbar jutting out to the SE which gives you zero fetch on these windswells. While all the "yankees" can surf bermuda high windswells to relieve some of the tedium of summer to your north.....VB is left flat as a lake......I know all of this and don't even live there.

Here's an idea, instead of defending your localism on a message board, how about you learn the elementary basics of your "local" break and stop cluttering this board with your pointless questions and attacks at someone who provides you a free service to assist in judgement calls that a 5 year old that surfs the easy to read flat sandbottom eastcoast can make.

 

i Surfed VB today south of the rocks from 3:30-6:30 and it was fun as ****. it was knee high and dribbling everywhere until 3:30, then it turned into 2-3 ft. windswell. once the winds switched to the NE, they generated some swell i guess, and then when the winds finally stopped at like 4:30ish, it got pretty clean, and def. ridable. There was probably 10 guys out total, so we all got some good rides.

 

Stud just got ownedddddddd. Biyahhhhh

 

skegs FTW!

 

Yesterday was chest occasional head. But my beach facing direction is south east. And its in virginia.

 

not a good swell here,and,skeglegs is what you would call an idiot

 

Did someone say Yankee...?!?!

Lee the Pud ! Aw.....ya missed me, didn't ya little feller ?!


Geez, GeneralLee, last year when I questioned the blown calls you nearly fell outta your tree with indignation. Y'know....move to the beach, get a book on forecasting, we're lucky to have this site, calling me a kook... all of your par-for-the-mini-golf-course irrational self-centered vitriolic diatribes that spew forth from your gullet when you've been hangin' at the meth lab too many hours.... again.

The classic hallmark of the angry-little-man-as-keyboard-bully-syndrome.


You like to dish it, sonny buck, but you sho' nuff cain't take it.