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Solid Cold Front This Weekend

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.

The strongest Cold Front of the Season is Slated for This Weekend

Soak up the epic weather now, because this could be the change in the pattern that we surfers have been looking for.  The strongest cold front we have seen all winter is slated for this weekend.  Those 35 knot winds on the chart mean gale force winds.  The surf will be maxing out.  This is one of those days when every surfer from here to tim buck two visits the “secret spot.”  It is a day with, as they say, “real surf!” Continue reading The strongest Cold Front of the Season is Slated for This Weekend