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Raymond Hess

Raymond has lived in the Tampa area since birth, a true Floridian, and has no plans of leaving. He started his career in the hospitality/service industry, eventually working at private golf courses, including Heritage Springs Country Club, East Lake Woodlands Country Club, and Cypress Run Golf Club. Returning to school full time at age 25 he quickly earned an Associate in Arts with a focus in psychology from Saint Petersburg College, and also earned the prestigious Outstanding Psychology Student award in 2012. Not long after, he received his Bachelor in Arts in psychology from the University of South Florida in 2014. For his psychology department honors thesis at USF he wrote a qualitative data driven paper on how reasoning and decision making intermingle. In this project he and his faculty mentor went as far as to create a unique categorization system for the various types of reasoning by the respondents. One of his faculty mentors in a letter of recommendation described Raymond as, “…among the best I’ve mentored in my 32 years of teaching experience primarily at the university level.” Raymond recently added coursework in leadership and organizational management and the health sciences to his resume. He is also pursuing his dreams as the owner and editor of the beach oriented publication, www.SurfingtheGulf.com. He has been the site photographer, videographer, writer, editor, publisher, salesman, and owner since its inception in 2014. He’s worked with local leaders to try to promote surfing, fishing, skimboarding and other beach activites. He hopes to leave a legacy as someone who cares about this place, and the people who live here.

Contact Raymond: editor@surfingthegulf.com

Surf Forecasts

Surf Forecast

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The surf has been flat for a while now, since Hermine. There is a boundary of air just above Louisiana, but it’s going to pull out of the south and into the northeast. It isn’t going to dip into the gulf. In the coming weeks cooler air will begin entering our area with troughs dipping far enough south to change our weather. They will start out mild, but once October rolls around, we will begin to get surf. With the increasingly fall like pattern, increasingly stronger cold fronts will get us into spring-suits, then wetsuits. The water temperature is at 85 degrees right now, but the mild cold fronts will decrease nighttime temps. Lower nigh-time temperatures will slowly bring down the water temperature. With a few decent cold fronts the water will quickly drop 10 degrees or more. There is usually one cold front mild enough to wear a spring-suit, then the cold wind will quickly put us into full-suits. Surf is coming.