I was pumped to head out surfing today and when i went down to the beach there wasn't any signs of waves. I doubt it's gonna build to over head like it says for tomorrow, at least not where I'm at anyway
i think the same, i was in LB today, and it was shin high, ibut chest in Seaside there should be something ridable tomorrow
Yeah it sucked big and I have to work tomorrow. Hopefully some leftovers on Monday, but who knows. The swell reading in near shore waters was exactly as forecasted in Long Island/RI. It was around 2.5 feet at 15 seconds all day, which basically means flat/knee high! How someone forecasts chest/head high out of that type of buoy reading on the east coast is beyond me. I didn't bother going out, just looked at the buoy and cam's. Obvious nothing was going on. The buoy's don't lie. Even the nws forecasted 4-6 foot waves. They must have been smokin that crack pipe. Western RI was flat as a pancake and it was just slightly bigger the farther east you went.(ie closer to the storm )
drove all around mon cty to find flatness everywhere. surfed squan - was 'fun', head high +, minus the hard N wind and insane crowd. could only deal w/ that for an hr or so. from deal north there was barely even a trace of waves. ankle-knee high nothing. this same thing happened last yr w/ bill. south of monmouth county was pumping overhead and monmouth was almost flat. i really don't understand it. there must be something w/ the contours of hte coast that all of the swell just unloads south of here and we get like a fraction of it. swellinfo, any comment?
I've found from experience in RI that there needs to be a small craft advisory from the nws. If there's not that issued, generally there's not going to be a big swell. They warn about long period swells breaking in shoaling area's ect. Now of course you have to pay attention to the winds/how close storm is/direction/buoy swell period/height ect. to see if it's clean. They can issue an advisory just for choppy sea's, so it's no guarantee of a swell, but it's almost always issued every time there's a big swell in the water. No advisory today= flatness.
dude manasquan is like 10 miles from deal. it's overhead in manasquan and flat in deal. it's not an issue of time.
Strathmere was fun although I am not sure it will be able to handle the predicted size for tomorrow. We had really clean waist to stomach in the morning and it built to chest in the afternoon but it got choppy once the winds got on it. Pretty much exactly as surf-forecast called it.
Obviously not. I thought you meant central jersey vs southern jersey. Don't know NJ towns. That's what's call a "swell shadow" then. Long period juice being sucked and amplified into one spot, leaving the other places in a "shadow" ie no waves.
longer period swells will always create more variability, because they are much more influenced by the ocean bottom causing refraction focusing energy towards some areas and away from others. the forecast data looks is close to what is showing buoy data, but a bit of an overcall this afternoon for some areas. But, for most areas, the spots that are or are not working today, will likely be the spots they will or will not work tomorrow.
true.. i think too much of an E direction for central nj. i think danielle is pretty much a bust for this area. any change in wind for tomorrow?
Squan was fun this morning, head high sets rolling in....we figured on hitting Deal, nothing..........it was bizzare to see that, seemed like from mid Belmar to Squan was working oh well, first light manana
I was in Strathmere around noon and it was pretty much all closeouts and got real choppy. Guess the morning was better. How do u feel about Strathmere now? I'm starting to hate going there. It is always a long ass paddle out. I think the dredging really hosed it.
Yeah, the morning was leagues better; between 7 and about 11, it was really fun. By about 11:30, it started to closeout more often than not. It got fairly clean again by about 3 but by that point, I was over it. I don't see myself heading back there tomorrow. Strathmere is okay in my opinion. It is like any other mediocre spot. Nothing too special but it doesn't suck either. For this morning's conditions, I think it was fine. Lately, when I am there, I stay at a spot that is closer to SIC rather than the north end which I am guessing is where you are talking about. And yeah, that is a long ass paddle out.
**** better show. Marine forcast calls for small craft at 7pm to Sunday evening 4to5 feet at 14 seconds if we get a soild waist chest I will be more then happy today was and has been a bummer
Hurricane swells are the most fickle swells of all. So for hurricane swells I get excited when I'm standing on the beach and the waves are actually good. Like Swellinfo said, there are a lot more variables when it's super long period (and beaches react different - generally worse in DE/MD to 14 + second swell then they do to shorter period intervals).
At this point even if it was closed out walls most of us would not care got to be at least one spot on Delmarva working local are sick of the getting burnt barely a real chest high swell the whole summer I do not even care if it is unridable as long as some dam push and siZe shows
Well ...down here in VA Beach, I will say that the surf was marginal, but the Reef Girl 2010 contest at ECSC went off very nicely!
