Swellinfo.com Forecaste Problem- please fixie

Yup! I also noticed problems with ALL text products in the hurricane section.

TBH i'm not that suprised at the decline in quality since the site was sold, but I am rather dissapointed. I spend a lot more time on Weather Underground these days.

Mr. B: You can find pretty much everything that is broken/missing on SI here: https://www.wunderground.com/hurricane/ It's not surf specific but very throrugh none-the-less. Dr. Master's blog is awesome and the comments are super informative.

 

What happened to the little notification thing that used to pop up every time a tropical storm evolved?? I really kind a liked that thing.

 

I just go to noaa or nhc.

 

Belmar isn't showing 23'
Somethings broken

 

Drinking Mai tais in Central America getting barreled off his belly.

Micah. Come back to us!

 

I'm thinking that when the rest of the hurricane part of the site broke, that went with it.

We're on a ship with no one at the helm fellas. Well, someone is at the helm but i get the impression that despite their best efforts the nuanced nature of surf forecasting is lost on them. Outdoor hub is on the verge of blowing their investment in this site. Yeah you get a ton of clicks b/c of the forum, but if the forecasts go away, we all go away.

 

This site isn't terribly informative but it gives good visuals and you can see how different systems work off of each other.

https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-78.68,33.79,879/loc=-77.918,29.592

 

The site could just link to National Hurricane Center. It really has everything one would need.

More concerning to me is the actual forecast. I recall that Micah made changes to the algorithm's used when tropical swell was upon us. I don't know if that change happened automatically, or manually with his input, and no idea if it is being done now.

I saw the buoy jump to a 15s period at 8:50 last night, so despite being small, the TS swell is there. i also noticed what i thought was more of a difference between the swellinfo forecast and some of the competitor's than usual. I think (hope) swellinfo may be undercalling this weeks forecasted swell a tad, at least for NJ. I think it may be a touch bigger than what they are forecasting Tues-Wed.

Then again, that could be wishful thinking on my part.

 

I just divide the forcasted height in half then its accurate for my area.

 

IDK about hurricane swell but the Gloucester forecast is usually too optimistic now. Nantasket and RI are usually fairly accurate (usually means actually flat when predicated flat) but Gloucester MA shows 2+ and green often when it's a koi pond there.

 

I've found the site to still be relatively accurate for my area (southern monmouth/northern ocean) for our standard wind swell events. As accurate or better than others. Certainly the data anyway. But for the really low end of the spectrum, you just need knowledge. I mean knee to waist can be accurate and no fun at all, but also accurate and quite amusing depending on wave direction, period etc. etc.

 

The thing I cannot get SI to do is wipe my ass after I take a dump!!
Austin, can you please include a ass-wipe function. Please include an "app" so we do not have to look to hard for it when nature calls.....