Monday, June 23

 

Reporter: T. Strange 

 

Surf Reports comments:

6:30 am: The waves are looking small early on this Monday morning. It’s semi-glassy with very light winds eaerly.   Wave size 1/2 a foot to 1 foot.  The marine forecast is calling for E winds at 10-15 knots this afternoon. On the local buoy, the good news is our early wave height reading has increased to 2.3 feet at 5 seconds in ESE swell, up in size from yesterday’s 1.6 feet @ 8 seconds. While most of the increase is in close period wind waves, there is also a noticeable uptick in long period (12 sec) east swell. You can see the surf conditions live on our cams page here.

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7:20 am:  Early morning photos are up in box #1 and you can see we have waves on the inside for your Monday.   Small overall with some knee high  or so semi-glassy waves breaking close to shore.   There should be ridable waves today, particularly at key spots.   The wind is onshore earlier than expectred.   Yesterday it didn’t pick up that much, even though it was forecast to do so.  Maybe it will do that again today?  We will see. Dean is calling for a modest increase into mid-week, and his latest look ahead is suggesting the first week in July (typically the heart of summer doldrums) could have a multi-day swell.

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12:30 pm:   New mid morning photos taken from 3 different locations are up are box #2 and you can see we have more surf than it looked like at daybreak.     Small overall but there are some knee high to maybe thigh high semi-choppy waves to be found.   And with a little bit of a swell on the buoy, looks like there will be something to ride over the next couple of days….

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Here is a link to Dean’s 7-Day Surf Station Surf Forecast. Here is 7 day Atlantic Ocean map and here is an overview of a large-scale real-time wind map to track the shifting winds associated with the fronts and lows that produce our waves.