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East Coast Surf Forecast

The east coast is going to get a little love from a couple rounds of decent surf within the next couple weeks.

First, the early season cold front moving across the continent should enter the northwest Atlantic ocean within the next day or two. For east Florida cold fronts, the back side of the low  Continue reading East Coast Surf Forecast

East Coast – Hurricane Cristobal


Pumping surfed graced the shores of East Florida all last week.  The quality of waves produced by this storm exceeded the quality of the waves by the previous two category 1 storms of this hurricane season. Why were the waves from Cristobal so fun?  To assess this question we are going to look at the pressure of the air in the center of Hurricane Cristobal, then compare the air pressure in the center of Hurricane Arthur and Hurricane Bertha.  While many additional variables are important to determining the quality of waves produced by hurricanes, looking at the pressure of these storms will provide us with information about these storms strength and it will help us determine how accurate we can be Continue reading East Coast – Hurricane Cristobal