Surfing Waves

Anyone recommend sites/books to learn more about the weather, and waves? I am a computer dork, and I need more knowledge of they meteorology, and waves. I've got these on my amazon wishlist (some are slightly out of date versions because they are cheap used) (and NO, none of these are links that give me loot or something):

The Wetsand Wavecast Guide to Surf Forecasting: A Simple Approach to Planning the Perfect Sessions (Paperback)

Waves and Beaches (Paperback)

Maritime Meteorology (Paperback)

The Atmosphere: An Introduction to Meteorology, Ninth Edition (Hardcover)

How our surf is made part 1
http://socalforecast.blogspot.com/2008/ ... _8688.html

How our surf is made part 2
http://socalforecast.blogspot.com/2008/ ... s-are.html

How our surf is made part 3
http://socalforecast.blogspot.com/2008/ ... -made.html

How our surf is made part 4
http://socalforecast.blogspot.com/2008/ ... de_11.html

Introduction to forecasting
http://socalforecast.blogspot.com/2007/ ... sting.html

Hurricane surf
http://socalforecast.blogspot.com/2008/ ... eason.html

There are lot more stuff on his website, you just gotta search and look for it.

Defintely read that, drowningbitbybit, but am looking for some more knowledge.

LOLRuss wrote:Defintely read that, drowningbitbybit, but am looking for some more knowledge.

Oh, allright then...

MSW's how to forecast better than MSW does

And this is one of my local pages...

Bra surf - How to forecast

The basic priniciples will all be the same for you, but remember that the wind will go ANTI-CLOCKWISE around the isobars in the northern hemisphere.

Thanks!

How Waves Are Made

How Waves Break

Groundswell Creation

Wave Quality Factors

Wave Terminology