Monday, April 14, 2003
New Report from Saturday at County Line.
If you think the water is brown out there after this storm that came through, check out this foto of Picuruta Salazar surfing the Amazon River's tidal bore.
3 takes on the potential of the storm that was off of New Zealand this weekend that is "forecasted" to bring waves next week.
Surfline: "The Southern Pacific Ocean has really begun to come alive lately as we have moved into the south-of-the-equator fall season. For the past few days Surfline's Forecast Team has been watching a whole slew of storms churning through the mid- and upper-latitudes of the southern ocean, which have been generating an impressive amount of swell activity for the Mainland Mexico and Central America regions. We are counting at least four different swells right now that will keep the surf rolling for a good portion of April, while a couple of those swells have the potential to produce some very large surf. Wave-wise, it will be a good time to be down there."
Wetsand: Monday the 21st through Wednesday the 23rd we will be seeing a fairly strong SW swell move through the region. This is from a a fairly large system forming in the southern hemisphere. We’ve been watching this system for days, and are quite impressed with its size. We’re not expecting any adverse NW around this time frame, and all models favor a massive swath of SW energy headed our way.
StormSurf: "This storm is looking to be solid but not spectacular. Of most interest is that the fetch area is to travel almost right up the 204 degree great circle path to California and reach fairly well into the northern regions of the South Pacific Ocean (to 43S), improving the possibility for the creation of virtual fetch. This in turn could generate a better than average number of waves per set and improve set consistency too. Will verify this possibility when we run the calculations for swell arrival time (after the storm has faded). On the negative side is the readings from the ERS-2 satellite, indicating seas about 3 ft smaller than what was modeled by the Wavewatch-3 wavemodel (as usual). Still, 35 ft seas are decent. Will continue monitoring."
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Santa Barbara Surfing. Created by Tim Maddux. Continued by Pope.
