Hang tough, V. Next summer, maybe pool your money with friends, rent a huge storage place, fill it with plywood & generators. Sell when the time is right & get the hell outta Dodge. Once & for all.
I'm thinking we'll get some groomed action here in North Carolina on Sunday and even Monday is looking promising. We should really start to see this swell show tomorrow. The wind direction really isn't in our favor but they don't look too strong so I'm hopeful for a decent session at some point. Yesterday was actually shockingly fun....a random barrel here and there with a little power. Just hope this bad boy stays out to sea!!
Yeah I agree - Lots of spots in the mid-atlantic and northeast with N wind protection and SE swell exposure should be surfable over the next several days. A decent pulse of SE swell of Nicole is definitely forecast to show up Friday - Monday.
Mitchell, weather scribe, let me ask you this. Wtf is making 44097 5.2 ft @ 10 seconds right now? And, the swell filling in over the weekend in the NE, that's gonna be from Nicole?
Curious to see if Matt and Nickie hook up. I mean if Matt loops and Nickie stays on similar path, it could be a swell making rendezvous of epic proportions.
woah, woah! one question at a time! The 10 second swell is from the east fetch from the front/lows offshore SE of New England. We're getting it too. This map shows the surface winds from yesterday driving that windswell towards us.
Fkn A. Thank ye sir. It's weird because it's been picture perfect weather here, sky clear as a bell, perfect fall day yesterday. Hence that high pressure parked right on top of us. So when I checked the buoy this morning I was caught off guard, and by the cams it looked like everyone under-called it. I don't watch the news or check weather maps daily, so had no clue about this low. I need to check weather maps more often. Not like I coulda surfed today anyway.
Definitely some swell from Nicole in the forecast. If you look at the Friday surface wind maps, Nicole is pointing some southerly fetch towards the NE, and that fetch of east winds is still hanging in pushing E swell towards the coast.
Mitchell, you da man. Thank ye. I hope for some peaky goodness then if we have a little combo swell going. And also, againe, everyone in Florida stay safe and be prepared. Thoughts go out to you guys.
Gov Scott doing a press conference right now. He said don't go to the beach and specifically don't surf.
Didn't get the memo This report updated Thursday, October 6 at 11:00AM 3-4 ft +- waist to shoulder high FAIR CONDITIONS Hey, this is Mark with the report for Thursday afternoon. BROWARD - MIAMI DADE *SPECIAL* 11AM REPORT:
South Beach doesn't look all that bad now. I don't surf in Dade though. My protected spot is inaccessable at this time. Besides, my spouse would force me to eat my own f*uck for like a week if I abandonned her now.
This is going to be damaging. Not sure if any of you who live on the barrier islands in FL are going to have access back to your homes anytime soon after this thing passes
Be warned... and be safe as well. [video=youtube;yS-B7d6n1hw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS-B7d6n1hw[/video]
We headed out to Indian Rocks Beach on the gulf west of Tampa. I rented the only long board I could find. Paddled around for an hour, popped up three times on some shore break. Like a two second ride, but it was fun checking out the Gulf. All it was was local wind chop, near zero energy in the wave. Hit up a Home Depot for supplies to bring back to the east coast post hurricane. I figure the roads might not be passable until Sunday. And then half of the state will be returning to assess the damage. What a clusterf$&kl I do see that the Gov. climbed out of his alien pod to warn us a storm is coming. Hotel has a bunch of FEMA people here waiting. And mostly just refugees from east coast.