saturday/sunday forcast

Yeah, you said it yourself. Don't complain. Forecasts change, weather changes, and swells change. Take it or leave it.

 

thats the name of the game on the east coast. Since East Coast swells form so close to home, you have to base the majority of predictions on the government weather model. And, as we know, these can change from update to the next.

 

the further you are from a selected date the less accurate the models become...anything past 3 days is a crap shoot.

 

I'm not complaining at all, but I will say that this is why I don't really pay attention to the forecast until about 12-24 hours beforehand. Its mother nature, so things change all the time. If I plan on surfing in the morning, I'll check the forecast before bed and then again when I wake up, before leaving. Then there is the issue that conditions vary from spot to spot. Just leave it up to the gods and enjoy.

 

start your own forecasting site, but just make sure that its 100% accurate up to two weeks out. If you can pull it off I'll definitely check it out.

 

We are all mother nature's b**** basically haha...she does what she wants.

 

Wait until she finds out "Bill Gates" is trying to stop her 'Cane's in the Gulf... ooooooooo boy...shes gonna rage!!!!!!!!

 

No seriously guys, this is a legitimate complaint. I live far enough away from the beach that I need about a two week planning window. I have a job at a consulting firm, take a spinning class twice a week, and have to walk my labradoodle. I can't just miss an important meeting, or worse, my spinning class, because the forecast is "likely" to be chest high and clean. I can't leave my labradoodle home alone on a moments notice to take off for the beach just because a thigh high forecast jumped to being chest to head. He needs to be checked into a dog hotel, otherwise he gets traumatized and scratches my mauve, suede sofas. Also, the surf reports need to be updated hourly, with more specific locations so when I'm driving to the beach in my BMW, I can check swellinfo on my iphone while I'm having a conference call on my bluetooth and know exactly where I need to go to get the best waves. It's really not too much to ask to be able to plan my surfing days weeks ahead around my own schedule and be able to go to the best spot with no work done on my part.

 

Reading this was a complete waste of my time. Why not just say "I'm too important to live by the tides"

 

I think people were taking what you said a little too literally. I know where you're coming from. Just last night the forecast called for waist high all day tomorrow and now it's down to ankle to knee. Very aggravating. Also, the forecast for today was pretty off as well. Ankle to knee forecast was pretty off as far as I could see today. There was pretty consistent thigh high waves with the occasional sets at waist to chest level around the OC area. Just use the forecast as a frame of reference and go out and check for yourself if you can. if not then oh well, just hope you get lucky I guess.

 

waist to chest sets in WHAT OC area?

Orange County California?

 

hahaha.

surfed downtown early am and it was knee-thigh, occ waist on sets. water was coldd. forecasting wind swell is really difficult. unless it's a decent ground swell coming, i don't pay much attention to the forecasts. i pretty much just check the winds the night before and that helps me decide if i get up early to check it or not.

 

hahahahaha I had to throw in 'chest' as I saw ONE wave that was up there. 48th street in the AM. but regardless, waisters were rollin through.

 

Hahaha hilarious. That took some time.

 

It's the East Coast, none of us can escape. If we could we would have left years ago. At least I would have. Right side till I die...

 

bwahahahahaha! post of the week!

 

please tell me this guy isn't serious

 

Please tell me you're not serious...

 

Pic from OCMD this morning.
Fun and a little better than forecast.
Man theres nothing worse than missing the odd bigger wave...surf a endless stream of 2 footers and then arent in position (like these guys about to wear one on the head) for the rare fun one.