2011 looks like it may go down as the year when there was ZERO hurricane swell brought to the east coast between memorial and labor day. In all my years surfing I can't recall such a shameful summer of flatness. When was the last time this happened?
Lead Time Yes, two weeks, but it takes at least 1.5 weeks generally for a Cape Verde low to make its way across the Atlantic, develop into a hurricane, and make some swell. Maybe we'll get lucky with 97L but my bets are on this summer being one for the record books - record for flatness......____________________
maybe so, but i know september, october and november are gonna be banging...it's just like a mini-mall..hey, hey
http://polar.ncep.noaa.gov/waves/viewer.shtml?-multi_1-atlantic- Might be 'something' next weekend...long way off, but i'm sure hoping for it.
f*ck it im buying a jet powered SUP. No, I'm making a Hawaiian canoe out of like 4 of them, a giant inflatable banana, and some hemp rope
i agree that it's been a pretty dismal summer. nothing really over stomach high since early july & endless flatness there for a week or so. but you know that even if it had been head high most of the summer, half the people on here would be *****ing about how the wind was wrong or the tide was too full or too low or the swell angle wasn't right or swellinfo had forecasted DOH & all they got was head high w/ maybe bigger sets...face it, we're never happy. personally, i can't wait for the next solidly overhead swell to see how many people *actually* paddleout & back up all the ****-talking that's been going on & how many find some excuse to just hang in the parking lot or on the beach watching. that's always how it is on a decent to big swell...lot's of people talking in the lead up, not so many paddling out & catching waves when it comes to suit deed to word.
All i know is Summer is the Kooks time for surfing, which you sound like. If you expect there to be epic swell from memorial day to labor day you are very misinformed. Get with the program, make all your money in the summer from the kooks because we all know the surf blows in the summer, and get ready for fall when we do get pumping surf.
i have never surfed as little as i did this year. this winter was awful and aside from that nice blip in late april and early may, it's just been dreadful. am i seriously getting excited for knee-waist high this weekend? what has the world come to!?!?
no look at danielle and earl. danielle formed as a depression on the 21st of august and earl formed on the 25th of august, and both of them got here by labor day. As long as the low pressure trough returns to block the east coast, we should see some hurricane swell in the waning days of summer.
Tropics are lit up right now, only a matter of time before one of these storms takes a favorable track and sends us some long period ground swell. Its funny how excited I get nowadays when I can ride a fish, guess its a sign of how inconsistent its been this year.
Yeah it really comical when you see them on the beach just hangin out . Or they say they were out earlier but you know thats a crock of shxx
Looks like our ocean is finally going to stir things up next week...local windswells giving way to groundswells....its time. Oh and jinx these...to anyone who is superstitious.
Actually I do expect at least one epic swell between memorial day and labor day, because there has been at least one hurricane sweeping up the coast every summer since I starting surfing over 15 years ago. Don't come on these forums after only being a member for one month and start calling people kooks. Surprise for you, most of the people on this site are "kooks" who only surf a few months of the year, so get over it.
In 43 years on The Outer Banks, 2011 so far is the worst year for swell I can remember. We need low pressure to come back off the mid Atlantic. Swell making storms in the Bermuda area have been on the decline for the last 11 years.
