West Winds

There is swell in the water, but the westerly winds are hacking it up pretty good here on LI. Down in NJ, looks to be a bit better.

Back on LI

Looks like I am going to be back on LI for the foreseeable future, so reports and forecasts will be for that area-unless otherwise specified.

Oh, and Alex is moving to Hawaii tomorrow. I'm sure he'll send us reports/forecasts to make us jealous. Jerk.

Back to the waves... There is a nice little long period swell showing up today- It's about 4' at 12 secs. Winds are light, too. Should be some fun waves coming through... Might be a touch bigger in NJ due to the easterly component.

Looking forward, we have a front passing later this weekend. Seas should build nicely outta the south. Winds will be west or northwest- we'll see how it pans out as we get closer.

Minor Background Swell

There's a little bump out there now- should last through the end of the week, more or less. Could be fun at the right tide for some slides.

Looking a little further out... there is a front coming through later this weekend. That should create some south swell for us.

Better

Incoming from low tide was pretty good this afternoon. Chest high range, maybe a few bigger sets here and there. Pretty fun. Nice day, water's warming up a bit.

Saw a kid out in a 3/2, no boots, no gloves. He stayed out for at least 20 minutes! I know it's spring...but jeez the water is like 40 degrees.

I'll take a look later, but I am guessing the dropping swell and high tide will kill it.

It's alright, I guess

Waves look pretty small, and are closing out a bunch with the east swell. Every once in a while a decent wave hits the right sandbar and peels- but not often enough for me to bother suiting up.

I'm going to keep an eye on it all day. Winds are forecast to stay west... Perhaps it will look better later.

Long Period Swell, with onshores

There is some swell out there, but the onshore wind is messing it up. Tomorrow might be decent, though. Still some swell, and west winds are forecast for the morning.

Let's see how this pans out.

Pffffft

Typical. This morning, winds were light, but the tide was too low. Then the tide came in, and the wind came up.

haha

Can't win.

Waves are here

There was some rights and left coming in this morning.

Look for this swell to continue on tomorrow. Hopefully, the wind will have enough west in it to be good!

Forecast is holding

Still looking like we'll see some waves tomorrow, maybe even a session later today. Winds are forecast to go pretty light this afternoon, then go SW overnight.

Keep an eye out.

Wednesday?

Swell should come up, along with NE winds. Its looking like lighter winds for Wednesday... we'll see as it gets closer.

Should have gone out earlier!

Typical- I waited for it to get better, and it got worse. It's pretty crappy looking now, maybe waist high crumbly closeouts.

Oh well, it's not like I really missed an epic session earlier, anyway...

Saturday Waves

There's a little wave today. Tide was a little high, but it looks around waist high. It's worth a check, if you don't have anything better to do.

I might go out when the tide drains a bit more.

Flat

It's flat, and looks to stay that way into the foreseeable future. Awesome!

We'll let ya know if anything changes.

Evening Report

Wind never really went offshore here. It was light, but a bump stayed on it until dark. We managed to get a couple turns, but it would have been much better with an hour or so of offshore winds. Sets were about chest high, maybe a touch bigger on the drop.

Guessing it will be flat in the morning with hard offshores overnight.

Hump Day Report

There's some combo swell in the water. Tide's pretty low right now, and the winds flopping between South and Southwest.

I'm guessing the wind switches more westerly later this afternoon. Combine that with the incoming tide, and we might have some fun surf.

Worth a check later, for sure.

A skunking!

Took a trip down to DR last week, and unfortunately we got pretty skunked! Normally, there is no wind in the mornings...last week it blew like 20kts all day long. There was plenty of swell, just no good wind conditions.

We still managed to squeak a few decent sessions, but nothing epic.

On top of the skunking, prices were much higher, and the country seems a lot seedier than previous years. Oh well, chalk it up to a shitty week in paradise.

Locally, there's some swell in the water. Winds are messing it up, though. Maybe a bit cleaner tomorrow with a more westerly flow. Also looking like a swell for late this weekend.

We'll keep ya posted.