I feel like this is true for all weather forecasting. Heat, cold, wind, snow or whatever it always seems like they dial it back a few days out. Way more often than ramping it up.
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Magic Seaweed has joined forces with Surfline
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I hate the cams too. I also have over a dozen bookmarked that I check multiple times a day.
Plus Gromsdad insists on surfing the beach with the Cam. Besides the summer, in NJ you only have to surf in crowds if you want to.
I would have assumed albies showed up around SD and SoCal every season? We get them up here about 20-50 miles out where the waters about 60 around Aug-Sept, although its been more like 80-100 last few years. During an good El Nino we might see a Yellowtail or Dorado. Also figure Yellowtail and Bluefin would be the preferred species to go after down there.Commercial boats caught albies 540+ miles west of SD:
The albacore are coming! No, they’re probably not.
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This is why I hated Magic Seaweed. I had learned how to read the different weather pages, offshore forecasts and digest that to determine when my local would be good (onthe east coast it's not as easy as knowing a south swell is coming). Then MSW comes along and people would just look for the green and flock to the beach.
Man, I’ve tried a number of times and find the interface for swell angle, size n period to be not useful - for wind direct it’s fine - though their wind forecasts are not nearly as accurate as Weather Underground for this zone - and probably why I’ve blown off trying to use it for swell forecasts.
For the NE Windy is just about perfect...all the different models in one place, easy to toggle between them, wind and wave forecasts plus I like that I can put the little weather picker flag directly on the jetty I surf the most. The surfline forecast has become and amazing predictor of crowds at my local...waves not so much.
I was a very early adopter to Windy and I find it to be amazingly accurate. Often it predicts wind direction changes down to about 15 minutes of accuracy 4 or more days out. In addition to using it as my primary surf forecast tool, I live in an extremely flood prone location and I've used Windy for about 12 years to know when and if I need to prepare my house and cars for the flooding that comes from certain wind and swell directions.
That’s awesome it works for your area.
it’s literally useless for the wind forecasting here.
