Weird Swell Season!!!

[garbarrage]

Have been at my wits end this season... so much so that I nearly bought a kite! I like so many others rely on the spring/autumn swells to get my surf fix for the year. Winters are hit and miss at the weekend and too dark in the evening when I finish work. Summer's a bit of a write off except for the very occassional small swell. So that really just leaves a few months where I can get out regularly.

This winter has been abyssmal where I live (we normal get more swell than we can handle)... either no swell or huge messy howlin onshore. Made all the more annoying by reading about the epic el nino season nearly everywhere else has been getting. I am glad that someone somewhere is getting waves and that you folks in Cornwall have been having it good but can't wait till things get back to normal, or better yet, hope the summer is a bit abnormal.

Anyway, found this article by Tony Butt while trawling the interweb trying to make some sense of it (also while going off my bleedin biccy). So for those interested:
http://magicseaweed.com/North-Atlantic- ... tent/2343/
Quite long but definitely worth the read. Just hope its not a permanent change (always a possibility with climate change etc.), not living here that long and really starting to like the place, would hate to have to move again so soon!

[Jimi]

We had a flat summer in aus... Just had 2 weekends in a row of 4ft swell though so I'm stoked again. hope it picks up soon for you!

[billie_morini]

Feel your pain. This was the best Winter surf season in Santa Barbara in a long time. I was sick for nearly all of it. So, I missed it.

[garbarrage]

Feel your pain. This was the best Winter surf season in Santa Barbara in a long time. I was sick for nearly all of it. So, I missed it.

Hope it was nothing serious mate and that you're better now ready for the next swell.

Horrible bout of depression after reading that article tho. Surfers elsewhere probably praying for it to stay that way but really makes you think about climate change etc. Scary stuff!

[RobG814]

I'm pretty sure that every el niño season the west coast of the US gets sick swells while the East coast and Australia usually get nothing. Something with the warmer water temperatures affecting the winds or something, they had a big article about it in surfer magazine you should check out

[garbarrage]

Will do.... Luckily the swell looks like it could be back. Notice the jet-stream has shifted a little north giving us a decent size swell this weekend. Winds on it a bit but was big enough to wrap into a few spots that take those winds. Hopefully will get a few more this summer. Last summer was terrible, and followed by a terrible winter, and a terrible spring guess I was starting to wonder would there ever be surf again.