Category Archives: Weather
Fun Ankle High Glass 2:30pm
Is Winter Over?
I’m opening the website back up for discussion. Florida winters are very strange. In a sense, there is no winter. Cold fronts strong enough to bring down the temps to near freezing only come through a handful of times, then abruptly stop. It’s not always clear when that end is. We are guaranteed to get more little cold fronts, but as temperatures begin to heat up again, and the days of January pass, I’m starting to feel the hints of spring. I start to wonder, was that it? Is winter over? What do you readers think? Leave a comment.
Unseasonably Cool Temperatures
There’s been a change in the usual pattern of weather. The humidity and temps have both fallen to a comfortable point. Over the past few days the weather in the mornings and evenings have been nice compared to what’s usual for September. We’re now back in a warming trend with temps forecast back nearing 90 degrees during the middle of the day. Winter surf season is still a ways out, unfortunately. Hopefully we start getting more of the cooler/lower humidity days as we approach the end of October. More than likely we’ll be hotter than hell right up until a massive cold front gets our surf season underway around Halloween. I suppose it’s also possible we see the temps gradually cool through Fall, although I think that scenario is less likely. Fall is officially here with today kicking off the first day.
Dorian Could Wreak Havoc on The East Coast
Please note: I added the current forecast track image to the homepage down toward the bottom. It’s a link to the NHC. There’s also a water vapor satellite image GIF so you can see what’s happening with the appearance of the storm as it’s happening.
Hurricane Dorian, now a cateogry four hurricane with 140mph winds, is expected to make landfall early next week. The storm track cone has the landfall somewhere in east central Florida around 8pm on Tuesday, possibly annihilating Cocoa Beach. If it goes that way, Dorian’s going to tear some shit up. It won’t be a pretty sight. Looking on the bright side, this forecast has been adjusted over and over again. First, it was predicted, as it was last summer, with an obviously flawed track through the middle of the state. A repeating tracking pattern through the middle of the state just makes me think that NOAA and the NWS are just little play things for the rich people in power who are in love with money, and are willing to tell the whole country that the whole state, from the east coast to the west coast, is going to get annihilated by Dorian, so people go out and buy excessively canned food and crap they don’t need. Then after the sufficient spike in sales, we saw the trend where the track shifts a little bit more east taking it through the middle of the state. Now we’re seeing a track where it rides up along the east coast. I just can’t believe how absurd the forecast tracks have been this summer and the last. I’m sure some people are getting a nice fat wad in there pockets after these storms, further encouraging the absurdity. The track the navy’s GFS is pushing out now shows the track not even reaching the east coast (image below also a link to forecast). It’s what one of the local weather stations was also saying could be a possibility. Soon, we may see the NHC update with the actual forecast track up along the east coast, who knows. I’m not going to lie to you, the track is still unsure, however trends are actually pretty common with these things. The trend takes these hurricanes up along the east coast, sometimes making landfall, sometimes not. All I can say for sure is, I think we’re safe here on the gulf.
More Surf! 3pm
3pm: The surf looks slightly better today. It’s an outgoing tide. The lineup isn’t too crowded. The winds are onshore and gusty despite what the Pier 60 weather station says. The surf will keep going through the evening. Is this a tropical storm or what?
Epic T-Groin Failure 1:30pm
1:30pm: A storm just rolled in. The storm band was a short quick shot of rain. The high tide seems like a storm surge high tide. I don’t actually think it is. The water is washing into the parking lot again. The surf is rideable, and looks fun at times. No one is out, and there’s still a light drizzle. The size of the surf will drop again for the super low tide. Now or later, who knows. I’m debating now or later. It doesn’t look much bigger than yesterday, still coming in with long waits between set waves.
The imported sand they trucked to the beach or moved from some other place after the dredge seems to be almost gone:
