It seems as though everytime there is a swell and the winds go offshore they are heavy like 15-20mph. I don't remember this happening so often. Usually it is 5-10mph but this is crazy and blowing the swell to nothing very quickly. Anybody know why this is? I am assuming it has to do with the weather pattern or jetstream. Is there any change predicted in the near future?
I agree there have been some stiff offshores this winter, but man...sunday morning in MD the air was dead calm the entire morning. Glassy and chest-shoulder high crazy fun waves
I agree with epidemicepic. Seems like it's always been that way here on the wrong, I mean right, coast.
sea breeze comes FROM the sea...hence sea breeze. not towards the sea it happens when the land heats up faster than the water, the air rises over the land, and the cool air from the ocean fills in underneath it. thats why we get a 2-3pm south breeze at 15-20 knots every afternoon from may-july. After that the water is too warm for this to happen
regarding the heavy offshores....those are frontal winds. you can usually see the wind vectors following the low pressure system, and they point to the low after it moves off shore. You usually need a heavy system to generate some big swell....so you can expect that same system to have the same speed wind pointed in the opposite direction after it passed. Thats why hurricane season is nice. The hurricane generates the swell from so far away (in an optimal situation, ie hurricane bill), so we dont usually see the heavy winds associated with it. And in the summer we usually get light offshores because the fronts arent as serious, ie no waves swellinfo, how accurate is that?
