when you're hit with one of those, switch your browser to reader mode or equivalent.There a non-paywalled version? NS had a pretty terrible season in terms of consistency, lotta days where wind was onshore or swell came from a weird direction.
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when you're hit with one of those, switch your browser to reader mode or equivalent.There a non-paywalled version? NS had a pretty terrible season in terms of consistency, lotta days where wind was onshore or swell came from a weird direction.
Last Winter was very fun with consistent cold/overcast/grey chest-head Northerly chunks, a weekend Palm Beach event, and a strong one-and-done comboing a good groundswell and that was seriously firing. Summer 2020 through about Thanksgiving was definitely above average. Summer 2021 was fun for Summer as well.The new normal is the old normal - people always think the waves were better back when they were a kid.
It's called being jaded.
The bigger days had North wind issues at least in my hood, I would a disaggree with a dozen overhead days, but always good to look on the bright side.View attachment 150932think we a had a dozen of this mundus ,with a few classic days in your hood View attachment 150933
What about Baja? Far enough south to dodge the weather, well-exposed to the energy?I think Europe was the big winner this Northern Hemi season.
Possible, just go by what I see online. Ecuador in the Norh Hemi winter always intrigued me.What about Baja? Far enough south to dodge the weather, well-exposed to the energy?
Northern Peru/Ecuador/Galapagos?
I just find it hard to believe the reservoirs are filling in one season, Mammoth is basically under 30 feet of snow, 100 year old sh!t in Capitola has copped multiple cleanup sets over the top, and noooooooooooobody had a good Winter on the West Coast.Possible, just go but what I see online. Ecuador in the Norh Hemi winter always intrigued me.
Very solid explanation. 300 = vast majority of SoCal is fucked, storm on top of swell = up North is unmanageable, not enough long period and west for Baja.Not enough swell for Baja to pump after early Jan. Lots of storms in the north, but just not a ton of associated LP swell from the gulf. Kind of a good thing here, but its been like really small mostly unsurfable wind swell with a bump or two for a month now. Jan had some solid LP W pulses and was consistently OH and some windows on the back end of the storms in early to mid Feb, but was pretty north 300ish and stupid cold with snow on the beach once or twice. Opted for white waves. Caught a 10-13 at 11ish N wind swell in the islands, but was only for a few days. Fun enough tradewind swell to keep it surfable otherwise, but I'm not picky. Def lack of classic west swells there.
Every time a big swell rolls through sb it removes most or all of the sand from the beaches. Every time this happens people go down to the beach, see the sand is gone and immediately think thee things…
1. This has never happened before.
2. This is permanent.
3. Globalwarmism caused it.
Fuckking stupids.
Last Winter was very fun with consistent cold/overcast/grey chest-head Northerly chunks, a weekend Palm Beach event, and a strong one-and-done comboing a good groundswell and that was seriously firing. Summer 2020 through about Thanksgiving was definitely above average. Summer 2021 was fun for Summer as well.
The sandbars where I grew up were in hilariously better shape in from the late 80s to the late 90s. First Peak went from being an extremely fun spot that served up a gajillion wedgey ramps to being a closeout wobbly enough to be a Vero shorebreak. The other South Brevard spots are much more walled out than years of yore.
And the crowds. Mother of God, the crowds. Full Spanish House lot = weekend hurricane swell with offshores. Now it's basically any decent weekend day. Even 15 years ago, I regularly surfed at the Pier on weekdays in wetsuit season. I haven't been there in like two years.
Mayport dawn patrol used to be like 6 people if it wasn't at least chest high and offshore or a named storm.
I don't think the sand situation at Smyrna is as good as it used to be either. A hair more fickle and a bit more prone to over-wedging.
If anything I'd expect more warming to be more storm events, but maybe something about the homes and sh!t staying in place but the sand wanting to move around, in general the setup at spots is worse more than better in North/Central Florida.
And Mother of God the crowds.
People in Santa Barbara hate sand/dirt. It’s a clean well lit place and they keep it that way no matter who or what brings it.Why do they remove the sand? I don't understand.
The ocean removes the sand.Why do they remove the sand? I don't understand.
They used to rake (bulldoze) the kelp off of Ledbetter beach but thanks to my wife and the marine biology professor at SBCC show the city dopes just how much wildlife depends on that kelp they stopped some years ago.People in Santa Barbara hate sand/dirt. It’s a clean well lit place and they keep it that way no matter who or what brings it.
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El Nino vs Lan Nina?I wonder if there is correlation between spots far from each other on diff oceans.
I remember my teen years seeing those kelp cutter ships off Pleasure Point. Not sure if they were harvesting, or just cutting to clear the area. Such an endless supply of seaweed, I assumed it was for food production.They used to rake (bulldoze) the kelp off of Ledbetter beach but thanks to my wife and the marine biology professor at SBCC show the city dopes just how much wildlife depends on that kelp they stopped some years ago.
Beaches here are all natty.