A friend recently made me aware of the incoming cold front. It looks interesting, if not strange. Why is there a low pushing right in front of the cold front? That wind pattern doesn’t look right on the Navy GFS model linked below. A fun south swell could come up in front of the cold front. The winds are currently being forecast around the 25 knot range making it one of our stronger cold fronts. We’re still almost a week out. It’s currently looking like Friday afternoon, then Sunday morning. There’s still a lot to figure out as it gets closer. You can expect something fun this weekend at least.
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Hey Micah: What’s Actually Happening?
Micah just posted a surf forecast for the gulf. He’s calling for mostly bad surf in the upcoming swell. The model I looked at shows 20 knot west winds with this front (see gfs model link below). His forecast isn’t what’s confusing me. It’s not unusual to see the model different front what Micah forecasts. Micah is usually pretty good. What’s confusing me is what he wrote this time. He’s talking about a low blowing over by California and it taking 24 hours for it to get here. California is on the other coast. That wouldn’t be generating any waves. Hey Tony, if you read this, would you ask him to clarify? I just don’t understand what he’s saying. Is this one like that last one where it starts on the Texas coast as a ripple? If so, shouldn’t it be a really good swell like that other one?
You Need To Go Out There
After watching a few social media clips from today I can’t help but wonder how good it really was. I saw one from Brandon Fraley that looked like a solid messy head high barrel.
His looked better than any of the clips I saw from the Palm Harbor groms. Everything I saw coming out of their profiles were similar, although way less organized. The swell appeared to be a solid southwest swell, rather than the west southwest swell being shown on the buoy. Mike Peru sent me a couple clips of the point Honeymoon Island. The clip he sent looked like it was more manageable there than anywhere else.
The storm surge was a large one and is probably taking its toll. Honeymoon could split soon. I was watching the cam seeing waves breaking way out in front of the south Clearwater jetty. On a longboard you could literally almost ride those waves from the channel marker way offshore( well maybe not that far, but truthfully pretty close). Brendyn Levasseur posted a really cool picture from deeper in the pass closer to the end of where that wave breaks. It almost looked like it was dropping by afternoon.
A Fortnite video game professional was even out there giving it a go in the pass today, the man himself, Tfue.
I would be stoked to read what it was like for you today. Did you find any manageable waves? I opened back up the comment section, so post up.