41009, 41010 and others. trying to keep us off the beaches if there is a swell incoming? dunno

Ugh. Blind without them! Vizzie reports important.

now if we could get rid of the surf cams we almost be back to the 80's...know your weather! It's all about the isobars...windy.com is really all you need..still remember waiting by the fax at the surf shop (R.I.P.) Sean Collins

Edited: 03/25/2020 at 06:26 AM by SurferMic

i am too lazy to walk across the street brah. i need my buoys (kidding of course)

Edited: 03/25/2020 at 06:27 AM by RiddleMe

surfermic, we had buoy reports in the 80s. Just had to listen to the radio shack weather radio cube!

Can you still call Quiet Flight and listen to the surf report on their answering machine?

The buoy reports did that globally for about 12 hours last week and then it was fixed. Programming glitch that NOAA has a single point of failure for?





Edited: 03/25/2020 at 07:45 AM by Greensleeves

No, try Oceanside. That's where I used to get mine before I could read the weather.

Roger that Dave: "and the weather roundup at 6 am, winds light from the northwest at 4 mph".....

Edited: 03/25/2020 at 09:54 AM by IamSAW2

HA.... I remember my first trip to the North Shore (21 years ago)... we'd listen to my buddy's NOAA weather radio for the outer buoy reports before we went to bed to get an idea what to expect for the next morning.... and went to sleep with excited smiles.... or had nightmares

Edited: 03/25/2020 at 01:37 PM by Plan B

Yes I lived right off the beach in Hawaii. You could feel it rumbling and smell it when it was building.

I went and looked today, small.

As per the afternoon check, there is a perfectly valid reason the buoys are reporting no swell...

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9-7-6 RAAAAAGE!!!

My first stint in Hawaii in '91-''92 we listened to the weather radio buoy reports, the voice of the local guy NWS announcer was almost like hearing Neptune himself.

When I went back out there for grad school in '98 NWS had switched to robot voice...it wasn't the same. BUTT...they had started the Pat Caldwell online surf forecasts which were (still are) worth their weight in sex wax. Of course, I'd see Pat around the Dept and pick his brain and pretty soon I was doing my own accurate forecasts, maybe a little better for a surfer with Pat being a windsurfer and having slightly different perspective.

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

Yes, that robot voice was annoying! Sign of the times though. Too bad NWS didn't think of Siri or Alexa voice back then!

...it's nice that you have a voice. js

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Yoda voice:

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Edited: 03/31/2020 at 09:38 AM by Greensleeves

fyi, swell size back on buoy.

Buoys off line:
Again....
" On 03/09/2021 the NDBC primary processing servers were shut off due to a facilities issue, and to keep 2ndlight surfers in the dark about upcoming swells. We're going back to old school, if you wanna know what the waves are like, ya gotta go check it yourself. Now get back to work and stop surfing the internet. Station pages on the NDBC website are not updating and there is no ETR at this time. We will update this banner as we learn more. That is all, now back to our regularly scheduled programming."

I heard rumor of a flood in the building that houses the servers that relay buoy info. out nationwide

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