Can anybody possibly tell yet if there are going to be any waves for thanksgiving week? I know it's pretty far off still, but I'm just trying to figure out if its going to be worth bringing my board and rubber on a chinatown bus from DC back to LI.
the best you can do at this point is look at the 10day GFS model, which will show you pressure patterns out to the Wednesday before thanksgiving. GFS model, Unisys Weather Also, you can check out the Swellinfo wave maps that go out to 180 hours, but that only gets you to the Monday before Thanksgiving at this point.
speeking from a purely experienced pt. uv view, there'z almost ALWAYZ sumthin' 2 ride eether pre/on/or post T-day. thee oddz r usually pretty high, in my history. but then again, this IZ thee east coast, so i woodn't bet too highly on it.
How much time will an Oneill Hammer 3/2 (definitely not the best of 3/2s out there) and 5mm boots,gloves, and hood buy me in the water? I'm just looking to try and get an hour or so if there's decent surf. Is this goal too lofty?
If your just looking for an hour, I'd say your fine, but pretty soon you'll definitely be pushing it with the 3/2.
i'd splurge 4 thu nu 6/5/4mm...this looks 2 b a very cold winter so far, u'll b nice and toasteey thru the seesun and they're not 2 priceey. u're just askin' 4 thu pain with that 3/2. i hope u atleest have a hood!
i'd say going by this l8est 4cast that history basically reepeets itself!? +/- a day within T-day. i'd say if i cood bet on there beein' surf near T-day, i'd b a millionaire.
lookin' like building swell over next few dayz, with possible cleenup Wed and THursday. WEd lookin' like nice leftover southerly swell 8sec, with building ESE long period **** l8r on in thu day. windz lill' sketchy, but hopefully will b dooable. T-day (thursday) cood b thEE day, with possible long period solid **** and lite westerleeyz. still early 2 tell, but lookin' like very large Low way in thee atlantic will send this swell, (see 96hr radiofax)... http://www.opc.ncep.noaa.gov/shtml/pwam99.gif Swellinfo wuz way ahead uv thu game on this one, like usual! nice job admin!
i am going to be in bermuda during thanksgiving. hope theres a ripple or two there during this whole stint
bermuda will see quite a bit of swell, especially the E swell at the end of the week. I couldnt tell you anything about where to surf there tho... I believe its mostly outer reefs there..
sweet cant wait to try and get some swell finally and the water shouldnt be much lower then 65. i guess ill just ride around the island looking for waves and sumwhere to get a board. if i have to ill rent a boat to get to a swell
remember last thanksgiving eve, head &half to double on the cape, overhead on turkey day, & head plus on black friday... deja vu!!!! i would do whatever i could to surf, if it meant hijacking the chinatown bus... thankfully i only have to travel half a mile.......
i did a little searching around about breaks on bermuda and didn't find much. Found some sick photos, but nothing with regards to finding surf. If I recall correctly, there are outer reefs that surround a lot of the island and protect the island from the surf making it in. I think the south shore may be different. Let us know how it goes... I'm interested.
Bermuda surf breaks 3 surf breaks in Bermuda on http://www.wannasurf.com/spot/Central_America/Bermuda/index.html The only other place I know to get info on Bermuda surf breaks is surfmaps.com...and you have pay $8 for the report. Good wavehunting on your trip.
Waves on the way so you can get wet over Thanksgiving It seems that once again we'll have waves for Thanksgiving. Let's just hope the only 'stuffing' is on your dinner table! It should actually be a pretty wave filled week with (2) two good swell makers on the way. The first swell comes compliments of warm air advection and an area of low pressure moving up the spine of the Appalachains. The low should intensify pretty well and produce head high surf on the backside of fairly vigorous South Winds. Look for the clean-up to come tomorrow aft with fun head high surf and a general SW Wind. Okay, swell maker #2 really starts to build in late Thanksgiving and into the weekend. This system is much more dynamic and has better upper air support. Although the wheels of motion start late this week on this swell, it's really not unitl Saturday until we start to see the rideability really take shape. Just a couple of notes: although these two swells are the highlight, it appears that we have a couple 'sneaker' swells or pulses cropping up for Wednesday(leftovers early...but lingering into Thursday?). So, at this point it looks like the only unrideable day will be Friday..... Get on it boys, if you find some mysto spots protected from the winds it could be super glassy with some fun offshore barrels. Charge it!
so i am in bermuda at the moment. looks like horseshoe bay was knee high but shore break. a bigger swell would get it to break out farther. so friday and before i leave saturday ill check it out. there was a picture in surfing magazine in the out takes that showed a bodyboarder in bermuda. waves looked clean. as swellinfo said all the waves get broken apart by a barrier of rocks/reefs out about 1/4 mile from shore. horseshoe bay just happens to not get rocks in the way
