Come up to Charleston. There have been plenty of peeling days from waist to head high. The wind has been playing nice for the last few decent swells. We haven't had any massive waves in the last 2 years. Earl was decent, but before I moved back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tm3694qw168
Looks like a pretty perfect size. Most of those waves were no good, but you could see on the south end of the washout, the guys on that shouldering A Frame probably got some good ones. Lots of close outs. The footage of the pier looked a lot more manageable. I saw a lot of broken boards in that video, but not one barrel.
There were quite a few barrels in the video, just no one on them. That is a reason why I say chest is best though. Once it get's overhead, I just don't think it holds up as well. Makes it hard to paddle out, hard to catch, and hard to ride. This is more common, from my experiences: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZA0wrUWMwY Chest high, minimal wind, consistent barrels. Hurricane Arthur was a good example. It was pretty big the night before and the day of (head high or slightly above), but there were a ton of closeouts. The day after, it was stomach high and clean until the tide changed. I don't know what it is about this area, but I almost never see it both big and really clean. May be different in HHI, but I have never surfed there to have input. Now OBX, that place can hold some size.
Yeah, there were definitely some barrels in that video. It just looked like everyone was having trouble getting in the right position or spot. That is bigger than anything I have seen down here. Not sure exactly how walled up it would be round these parts. Probably about the same. But you were probably looking for something like this. We consider this the most fun kinda day down here. Just the right size, at tad small, but still super fun.
The center of Tropical Storm Bertha was passing between the Lesser Antilles islands of Martinique and Dominica near 4 pm EDT on Friday, but has brought little in the way of strong winds or heavy rain to the Lesser Antilles Islands so far. As of 4 pm, Martinique had received 0.35" of rain, with top winds of 22 mph. Dominica had a wind gust of 43 mph at 4 pm EDT, and had picked up 0.08" of rain. The storm's top winds of 50 mph were located about 100 - 150 miles east-northeast of the center, and this portion of the storm will affect the northernmost Leeward Islands Friday night as Bertha speeds west-northwest at 22 mph. Visible satellite loops on Friday afternoon showed that although Bertha's surface circulation was exposed to view due to wind shear, the storm was growing more organized. Bertha had a modest area of heavy thunderstorms on the east side of the circulation, but heavy thunderstorms were beginning to fire up near the center of circulation. Martinique radar also showed increased organization, with more spiral bands forming and growing more intense near the center. This modest increase in organization may be due to the fact that wind shear due to strong upper-level winds out of the west had dropped by 5 knots since Friday morning, and was a moderate 15 knots on Friday afternoon. These winds were still driving dry air to the west of Bertha into the circulation, limiting heavy thunderstorms on the west side of the storm. An Air Force C-130 hurricane hunter aircraft was investigating Bertha early Friday afternoon, and found that the storm's central pressure had fallen 3 mb since Friday morning, to 1007 mb. Top surface winds measured by the plane were about 50 mph.
well see if its strong enough when or if it comes up the east coast. hoping to ride something bigger than waist high since june...
This chick's going Cat1 when she's already by us? Damn. Anyone know any mating calls for female trop storms? Gonna love the 11s period even if it's waist to chest. Looks like it's me, Levy and ManIssues sharing peaks in Rhodey this week! What's about this other invest that was trailing quickly behind? btw zach, do your boards have boners yet bro?
We are supposed to get waist high today, which is bigger than in many weeks and yesterday had some bombs come through about every five minutes early morning with spectacular pop up storms way out on horizon-- am wondering if that was from the new disturbance off the Florida coast which is north of Bertha--whatever, my posse had s blast yesterday trying to round up the uninjured for today. And there is this from flhurricane.com : "An active wave (Pouch 10L) was located at 10N 33W at 03/04Z. Most of the convection is displaced to the west of the center by easterly shear, but the shear is expected to decline rather rapidly in the next 12 to 24 hours as the wave moves generally to the west."
todays' forecast has a good track and potential strengthening. so far so good. looks like wednesday sunrise here in so jersey. with a bit more of luck we should see 4ft sets.....
Let me stoke the hype...Fun little 2-4 barrels early this morning in No Flo not epic but better than its been in 2 weeks
Was waist to chest high today, I don't have a clue why, seems too soon for it to be Bertha-- but I guess it's Bertha.
Oh it's Bertha alright, was chest to head on the sets at a spot I hit this morning, it's building and should be in full swing tomorrow / Tuesday. Summer has been awesome!
Yeah, it was so beautiful out there, the lighting was almost eerie early morning, and then three rainbows, fish popping out of the water, some amazing surfers. Warm water. Nice air temp. No wind. Got my a$$ kicked but life is good
