Oh Good Lord... This weekend.... WOOHOO!!!!!

[drowningbitbybit]

This coming weekend...

It doesnt get much better than this

[Phil]

tell me about keep looking at the chats and it just keeps geting better and better

[NF_surf]

I live on the eastern tip of Newfoundland...and this looks huge!

https://www.fnmoc.navy.mil/PUBLIC/WAM/all_natl.html

[surferdude_scarborough]

post some pics for us lot stuck up north til the weekend after!!

[k mac]

loosk a little bigger than this gone weekend ...but bigger lets hope the wind stay as they are !

[drowningbitbybit]

Headhigh to head and a half

With a brisk offshore, so some shelter required, but lookin' good!

post some pics for us lot stuck up north til the weekend after!!

I'll let you know how it goes *smirk*

[sinistapenguin]

A little message to anyone who gets to go this weekend:

I hate you all!!

[surferdude_scarborough]

lol seconded (even though im comin down for a week next thursaday)

[k mac]

message to sinista:

HAHA

[Phil]

A little message to anyone who gets to go this weekend:

I hate you all!!

ill get some pics for you if it makes you happy

[globesurfer]

This coming weekend...

It doesnt get much better than this

How the hell do u read that? something about intense lows make big swells?

[drowningbitbybit]

Intense low pressure sending us waves,
A little distance between the UK and the low pressure so it should clean up nicely,

A high pressure sitting over the UK meaning generally settled conditions and (hopefully) offshore breezes for the southwest, so the waves shouldnt get blown out.

Or to summarise...


With maybe a bit of...

...on the push.

[globesurfer]

awesome, sounds lyk ur headed 4 a few awesome sessions..

[sinistapenguin]

I think it works something like this:

Air moves from areas of high pressure towards areas of low pressure, which basically results in winds travelling clockwise around areas of low pressure and anti-clockwise around areas of high pressure.

The tighter together the lines (isobars) are the more intense the drop in pressure and the higher the winds.

The bigger the area of low pressure the longer distance these winds travel over the water (the fetch)- and we all know what wind over water does!!

So looking at this chart we have a large circle of tightly packed isobars which means strong winds basically dragging across most of the atlantic in the general direction of the UK. This will make heap big waves!

Then we look at the high pressure which is very loosely packed and over the UK so we should expect light winds blowing offshore.

Once you know all that, the picture looks a whole lot prettier!!

Cheers
S

[drowningbitbybit]

travelling clockwise around areas of low pressure and anti-clockwise around areas of high pressure.

Other way round!

This shows whats happening around that gorgeous lovely intense low pressure and that quite frankly lovely high right now...

http://magicseaweed.com/msw-surf-charts ... d&scale=in

[sinistapenguin]

Other way round!

That's what I thought!! I actually went on Google to double check and found a diagram which showed it the wrong way round!!

Typical.

I thought it was the other way round, otherwise all the waves would be heading north of scotland!!

That'll teach me to trust what I read on the Internet!

:wink:

[k mac]

6.6ft 12secs
14mph 16°C


gonna be fun

[little waves]

my local buoy reads 16.4' at 11 seconds

[Brent]

Bit of confusion for the punters there between southern & northern hemispheres.
Not only does your water travel down plug holes the wrong way up there but lows rotate anti-clockwise & highs rotate clockwise.

Nuts. Just another reason to migrate :-))))

[k mac]

oh wow brent you being serious water goes the 'right' way ... oh my, i think ill pack my bags now

hmm teletext .....booked it, packed it ,f*ucked off (Peter Kay top of the tower)