Surfing Waves

anyone know what the swell is going to be like in Bournemouth on Saturday? I don't have a clue how to predict that sh*t!

Try www.magicseaweed.com

The link might not work so type it in

Take it easy

You can try...
www.bournemouth-surfing.co.uk/
...but they're a bit erratic with their forecasts


Seriously - if you're going to surf the south coast, you need to learn how to forecast, otherwise you'll waste a lot of trips
The south coast is just too fickle to plan a trip around a forecast generated by a computer (magic seaweed) or by someone who lives miles away (soul surfer, although he's not bad).

As for what's going to happen this weekend on the south coast - its looking like theres going to be a fair old swell about, but the wind's going to be strong onshore, maybe going cross-shore later on.

Probably not worth making a long trip for, but if you can find some shelter then it might be worth a go

Here we go then... this is what we've got for late friday/early saturday.

Fairly big low pressure sitting to the south west of the UK, which will send waves towards the south coast of the UK

BUT... by the time its developed its very close to the UK, which doesnt give the waves any time to clean up

And those closely packed isobars mean wind - and the wind will travel in an anti-clockwise direction round the centre of the low pressure. So the winds will be direct onshore, and quite strong

Later on, when that low has moved north-east a bit, the winds will switch to cross-shore, and eventually might even go offshore for bournemouth... but by then the waves will have faded


So... If you can find shelter (not a lot of that at bournemouth) or time it prefectly, there might be a nice wave


...But probably blown out mush




Now, everyone, watch as there is glassy clean waist high conditions all weekend long...

cheers guys..... I'm not too big at the forecasting thing, although i know i should.... so far i've only been following the wind forecast cause i'm windsurfer first, surfer second, but I reckon I'll start paying more attention to the swell forecast if I don't want to waste the hour's trip to Bournemouth!

http://www.swell-forecast.comhas tutorials, as does magicseaweed, before you know it you'll be predicting with the best of them!!

If you search for Sorted Boardriders on yell.com/ google and give Sean a ring, he'll tell you what the conditions are like for Boscombe and probably some of the other places around there too!

http://www.a1surf.comhas webcams from all around the UK including the S. coast -so it's always worth a check!

Cheers

Sinista

Keep at it it dude.... look at the weater charts then look at the resulting conditons at spots and you'll get the idea what makes them work best.

Ho Ho... 70mph winds now forecast for the south coast...

Dont think I'll be getting up early tomorrow morning for the trip down south. So I can rest easy in the pub tonight sure in the knowledge that Im not missing anything