Looks like the West Bermuda buoy has been rocking a nice 8 foot 11 sec swell since morning. If my calculations are right , it should be buried under Thursday afternoons wind chop . Why do we always have bad wind on these days ? It will be my Birthday , so I'm wishing for improving winds .

Happy Birthday! Swell models do show long period arriving. Damn pesky onshore winds....

Windy.com says "8mph SE Winds" Starting Saturday morning for "The cleanup session"? Fingers and toes crossed!

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fyi, 13 to 14 seconds on 20 miler.

like tom say- wind,waves or tide...pick 2

Looks like this applies this yet again..... oh Florida

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Edited: 05/13/2022 at 04:22 AM by KP

No matter what , I'll find something some where to ride . It's just fun getting out there to feel the Stoke . Good luck to all

It was packing a punch this evening in north Jensen.
Surprising power

1009 AM EDT Sat Apr 30 2022

SYNOPSIS
A weakening frontal boundary across south Florida and
the adjacent Atlantic will dissipate today. The western Atlantic
high pressure ridge will produce several more days of moderate to
fresh onshore flow, with poor boating conditions continuing into
this evening. Higher coverage of showers and embedded lightning
storms is expected through this weekend, especially offshore the
Treasure Coast. Winds and seas will slowly subside early next
week.

Volusia-Brevard County Line to Sebastian Inlet 0-20 nm-
1009 AM EDT Sat Apr 30 2022

THIS AFTERNOON
East winds 10 to 15 knots. Seas 3 to 5 feet
with occasional seas to 6 feet. A dominant period 12 seconds. A
moderate chop on the intracoastal waters. Slight chance of
showers in the morning. Slight chance of thunderstorms. Chance of
showers in the afternoon.


SUNDAY
Southeast winds 10 to 15 knots. Seas 3 to 4 feet with
occasional seas to 5 feet. A dominant period 6 seconds. A
moderate chop on the intracoastal waters. Chance of showers and
slight chance of thunderstorms.

MONDAY
Southeast winds 10 to 15 knots. Seas 3 to 4 feet with
occasional seas to 5 feet. A moderate chop on the intracoastal
waters. Slight chance of showers and thunderstorms.

TUESDAY
Southeast winds 10 to 15 knots. Seas 2 to 3 feet.
Slight chance of showers and thunderstorms.

WEDNESDAY
Southeast winds 10 to 15 knots. Seas 2 to 3 feet.
Chance of showers and thunderstorms.

Check ur favorite wave model for next week, 5/11. Always big and great surf in the long range forecast!

and my dreams....

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No there is not. The forecast has been onshore winds in that time frame for days. The forecast has been surf with shitty winds/conditions and it has not budged for a week or more. Quit making shit up.


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Surfline has next Thursday morning offshore.

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Which is after the peak of the swell when it is trending down and only for a short time frame.


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Edited: 05/04/2022 at 06:08 AM by wtf

I'LL TAKE IT! I literally don't use vacation days for ANYTHING except surfing when its good.. I don't call in sick ever and this is JUUUUST what I needed to hear! (That Surfline insight without paying 100$ bones a year for it )

Thanks Gents! See you Thursday at dawn



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Any surf in the month of May is great surf.

Your mileage may vary...

In FL, I hate to limit that to May....

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I found some sort of underswell well N o the cape when the tide was coming back in. lots of fun lefts probably not big enough for plan B but i still had a good tyme

From surfline
For thursday 5/12/22

4-6ft+
Chest to 1ft overhead
4-6ft
Chest to overhead
Surfline Good size NE swell lingers but winds likely to remain problematic. Could see some improvement pending the track of low pressure though so worth watching


When is the last time you saw something like this happen?

What are the odds of this actually coming true?

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NWS Melbourne:

Wednesday-Friday...The low pressure system off the VA/NC coast
becomes cutoff, heading southward Wed before retrograding SW on Thu
towards FL. NE winds will increase as the low approaches FL, leading
to hazardous beach and surf conditions. A daily 30-40% of showers
and thunderstorms returns to the forecast. Highs will be mid 80s
inland and low 80s along the coast.

While models continue to maintain good agreement on the development
and trajectory of this system, timing and location vary a bit with
the ECM bringing the center more towards Jacksonville, while the GFS
brings it the The Cape before turning northwestward, and the
Canadian kills it off before reaching The Bahamas. Impacts along the
east central FL coast will be highly dependent on the position of
the system as it reaches the SE coast. The further south the low
takes, the more coastal impacts such as beach erosion, rough surf,
and even coastal flooding, could be experienced.

they just went UP for y'all, since I have a mid-day dentist appt that day!

I am optimistic.


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That's an odd path, but maybe just what we need to break this spell

We often see a token swell in May with tropical characteristics, however this apparently isn't the case for this system. The retrograde part reeks of tropical storm behavior though. So maybe we get a little pay back for the dismal March/April surf we've had to endure. If this comes to fruition for next Thursday ...say 6@12 with ~ west winds it will be nice to surf some legit walls. I think there was a decent swell in both May 20' and 21'.
I recall a huge May swell solid double overhead with offshores ...must of been like 10 years ago at least. Maybe this leads to an outlying LA NINA summer with some ground swell a la 1995.

Friday 5/13

4-5ft
Chest to head
3-4ft+
Waist to shoulder
Surfline :Low pressure suggested to shift inland to the north. NE/NNE swell eases and local winds may improve. This is a day to watch for a potential proper cleanup.




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What would Carl Rossby say?

ST cyclone



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"If I say it's safe to surf this beach, captain, then it's safe to surf this beach!"

It was May 3 2013. I remember because it was the best day of my life. I remember Surfline's forecast for the day was 3-7 foot, poor to fair conditions with strong onshore winds all day. Woke up the next day to see winds 10-15 mph off shore and 10ft+ waves. Surfed for 8 hours and had the longest walk back I ever had. May 4 and May 5 were pretty amazing too but May 3 will probably never have a day line up like that again.

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So it is written...



Edited: 05/08/2022 at 04:27 AM by Greensleeves

Yes indeed. Now it looks like Friday is the new clean up day. Waning swell with offhsores. We shall see.

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If this doesn't make shortboardable waves, I'm taking up a new sport because we are never getting swell again. The low is over open water, it's spinning and it's moving south...there has to be fun waves, right?

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Spin, Baby Spin!

https://earth.nullschool.net/#...phic=-75.31,32.89,3277

Under the wind chop....is ANOTHER wind chop

from florida today:
Hurricane season doesn't official begin until June 1. It ends on Nov. 30. Because of this trend, there has been increasing discussions among weather experts about moving the official start of hurricane season up to May 15.

The current May streak of named storms started in 2015 with Annie. The following year it happened twice with Alex and Bonnie.

Since then? Arlene (2017), Alberto (2018), Andrea (2019), Arthur and Bertha (2020) and Ana (2021).

Will wait for the clean or semi-clean up. After surfing only once in the last month, I'm in no condition to lock horns with overhead windchop

That was that crazy hurricane they wouldnt call a hurricane that hovered off of daytona. I remember it well.

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Fri, Sat, & Sun looking somewhat favorable. Booked surf vacation in the back yard.

428 AM EDT Tue May 10 2022

SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE THURSDAY NIGHT


TODAY
North winds increasing to near 20 knots. Seas building to
6 to 8 feet with occasional seas to 10 feet. A dominant period 12
seconds. Choppy on the intracoastal waters.

WEDNESDAY
North winds around 20 knots. Seas 8 to 10 feet with
occasional seas to 13 feet. A dominant period 12 seconds. Choppy
on the intracoastal waters. Slight chance of showers.

THURSDAY
North winds near 20 knots. Seas 7 to 9 feet with
occasional seas to 11 feet. Choppy on the intracoastal waters.
Chance of showers and slight chance of thunderstorms.

FRIDAY
South winds 5 to 10 knots becoming southeast 10 to
15 knots in the afternoon. Seas 3 to 4 feet with occasional seas
to 5 feet. Slight chance of showers and thunderstorms.

SATURDAY
Southeast winds 5 to 10 knots becoming east 10 to
15 knots in the afternoon. Seas 3 to 4 feet with occasional seas
to 5 feet. Slight chance of showers and thunderstorms.

The windslop state

https://57hours.com/best-of/surfing-spots-usa/ We made the top ten.

Going off in SoFla right NOW!!! ( 5/11/22 @ 648am)
May??

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kinda fun this early AM with lighter, side off NW wind and some swell

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Tom is spot on...fun surf this AM until wind picked up

Palm Beach looks better than here tomorrow morning.. missed the window today

Yup.......2 hour window til that pesky wind switched.

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Waiting for waves is ok......most people spend their lives waiting for nothing.

Palm beach.

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10 miles South of palm beach was real good.

The wind and current were working against me. Actually got swept by clean up set and pushed down a half mile before I decided I could not make back out and I was too far. That happened twice. And at the end too. Still, though, I got some bombs.

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Just checked Pineda area. Wind was lighter NW but now hard North. surf is about 3-5 feet. Tops getting blown off. Drift moving South. A few people out. Probabaly better early in morn.

Fingers and toes all crossed for "the goods" tomorrow morning

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palm beach again.

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Friday, satellite, a weak 1-3 feet, glassy morning. Water felt good. Maybe better at low tide or on a longboard. Good luck!

Waves will be going off because its the weekend!

got a few fun ones way N o the cape , before the WIND, and then the TIDE got on it

The wind went onshore in Jupiter at 11:30. Waves went to shit. That may be it.

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Surf was actually bigger Saturday at low tide than it was on Friday. 4-5 feet at Patrick and strong drift going North. Seems like a new swell from the East.

Yes! Yesterday was such s a let down.... But today was way more fun!

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Si!

sunday - morning sickness early , outgoing tide could be fun

aaaand it WAS fun! til the wind got on it. chest to head high sets right before that. plenty o swell left. tomorrow and next day lookin too!

Perfect peelers with the wind offshore right now

Had a blast with the crowd at north jetty. Five days in a row. Sunburnt, sore and thrilled.

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