Sunday morning, stomach to chest high and glassy down south with some bigger sets especially in Satellite, thigh to waist at the Cape. Winds should be 3 to 6 mph out of the SW and then West. Winds increasing thru the day to 10 to 15 mph with the swell dropping rapidly, especially by mid-afternoon. Get out before 7:30 while the winds are light and before the swell really starts to drop by 11 or 12.
How the Waves were on Thursday, chest high plus and glassy down south by Patrick and Satellite.
Stomach to almost chest high Friday and very glassy in Satellite but a little textured and a little chop North of Minuteman once the SSW winds started around 8. Really fun waves in Satellite, nice fast walls.
Saturday, light onshores, and solid waist to stomach high at Lori Wilson, once high tide hit at 1:30 it was really clean and fun long rides on long board and fun, short workable walls on short board.
Oh, Friday Fest in Cape Canaveral was awesome and so was the band Vilify. They had to be under 22 years all 3 of them and man, the Bass, Drummer and especially lead guitar were all awesome. They played metal, Pink Floyd, The Doors and their own original. And the food and booths of artists, etc were great.
Friday morning 7 AM swell size model from magicseaweed.com and Noah.
Before I mention what today was like, an 8:00 PM update for Friday mornings call I have down below from earlier today. The 120 buoy is hanging around 4 foot at 11 seconds which is good, and the moving swell model is showing that it ought to hit 5 to 6 foot at the 120 tonight, but the winds are blowing SSW out there , at least down from 11 to now 5 knots SSW, but that could keep a lot of the swell back. So it could drop even smaller on Friday than it was today but I still feel better than 50 % that we’ll have chest high waves down south Friday morning 🙂
The pier had solid waist high waves today, I surfed on Johnson which was knee-high maybe some bigger sets, mostly closeouts but it was worth getting wet. With the winds being SW at the Cape, that actually is sideshore to occasionally slight offshore winds for us, and definite offshore down south, so that’s why we had some bumpy texture here. When I went to the pier at 11 Am, the winds had just turned onshore, it was waist-high and glassy so probably a foot bigger down south though I haven’t heard back yet on that.
Friday still looks to be a foot bigger or should I say stomach to chest high down south with a wind change to SSW winds instead of the earlier models that said SW.The SSW winds look to only hold until 9 AM at best so get out early! The actual swell from Emily is still rolling in straight thru until Saturday morning. Take a look at the first image which shows the Friday incoming swell model with the arrow pointing to a lighter blue than the 2nd picture which was for this morning, so the swell should be a little bigger and stronger for Friday morning but only for early morning.
Thursday morning 7 AM swell size model from magicseaweed.com and Noah.
Saturday the swell size peaks at around 3.5 feet at 9 seconds at around daybreak still looks to be chest high plus down south with onshore winds all day maybe some shoulder high sets, with light onshores in the morning (2 to 4 mph SSE, and increasing onshores in the afternoon, right now I can only read until 1 Pm which shows 6 mph east.
Sunday I believe will have chest high plus waves down south with I suspect NW winds, but that I will confirm Friday sometime early evening. Sunday still looks to be the semi-epic day. Only a North wind break for Sunday, meaning only a surf break North of Minuteman Causeway.(From the Cape to Satellite we have a bay in the shape of a C with Minuteman being the bottom, so if you look at my Google Map chart, you will see why I say South Wind and North Wind breaks.)Follow this link and scroll down just below the 4 small surf pictures and you will see the Names of 5 to 10 breaks and whether they are in the North or South wind break area.
Anyhow, have fun Friday thru Sunday.
Oh, don’t forget about the Cape Canaveral Friday Fest, to support children in school plus our local vendors, artists and beer, wine providers 🙂
Tropical Storm Emily has stalled as of 8 PM tonight (Wed) but still should throw some waves. Image compliments of stormpulse.com
The mental roller coaster continues…………….Ya know, the independence of a Tropical Storm/Hurricane , it just kinda changes its mind when it wants,
Tropical Storm Emily has stalled as of 8 PM tonight, but it does still have 50 mph winds. It’s border is skimming Haiti and the Dominican Republic. So right now the models dropped from 6 to 7 feet at around 11 seconds to 3.5 at 9 seconds. This I feel will jump back up again, a little, but if not, it’s still showing for Sunday, chest to shoulder-high wave potential by Patrick/Satellite and waist to chest here at the Cape with NW winds brisk but not too strong.
Thursday morning call; still iffy. We may have a rideable swell and we might not, but as of 9:30 PM it hasn’t hit the 120 buoy, not above 2.6 at 9 secs, and we really want 3.5 to 4.0 feet min at the 120 to even hope for waist-high waves tomorrow. It still looks like a 20 % chance of having waist-high plus before 10 Am, the winds should be offshore SW in the 5 to 8 mph range till mid-morning. (What’s with this percent thing 😉
Friday I have more confidence of having some fun waist to chest high waves down south and waist here in the Cape. Friday morning looks like SW winds again in the 4 to 8 range.
Saturday still looks like a stall and with light on shores in the Am and increasing on shores throughout the day up to 15 ish. Size by evening, chest high plus.
Sunday, if the models hold as they are, we may see nothing. But, if the storm moves again, then chest high plus with NW winds which means, your best shot is a break North of Minuteman Causeway to look for a North wind break.
Hopefully the model picks up, but whatever, we should have at least a couple days of fun waves 🙂
Emily looks to be best positioned for offshore winds and overhead for Sunday. Compliments of Stormpulse.com
Okay, Emily in brief.
Thursday morning, possible late morning ground swell, but that may be iffy. It is not really from Emily, but it could be waist to chest, ssw offshore winds.
Friday morning, this is part of Emily, and should be chest high (down south of course), ssw to sw winds. Emily stalls out here and size does not build until afternoon Saturday.
Saturday morning Emily is building , it may be waist to chest with light onshore winds early and sloppy strong onshore winds in the afternoon, and by late afternoon and evening it will get big probably overhead a little down south but be choppy all day, cause when a hurricane or TS is straight off our coast the winds have not come around offshore yet. (SEE PICTURE TO SEE STORM LOCATION)
Sunday morning, should be offshore, overhead, probably west winds offshore brisk in the 8 to 15 mph winds, but my guess, 2 foot overhead down south and head high plus at the Cape.
The winds I can’t accurately predict until 36 hours ahead of the predicted time period I’m talking about. So tonight I will give you some more accurate winds for Friday and Thursday and also if the first ground swell does actually hit the 120 buoy, or if we can only expect real waves for Sunday (offshore) and Saturday late afternoon big and onshore.
Tropical disturbance now with 35 mph winds, compliments of Stormpulse.com
1624 miles from Daytona it is. It’s still only a disturbance but at least it is traveling WNW at 21 mph and has winds of 35 mph.
The first image showing the low pressure system is an improvement of strength over last night.
In the 2nd image, check out the winds on Sunday, its pretty funny, up to 40 plus mph. We’ll see what happens, most of our great Canes have to come from the tip of Africa to really develop, but maybe we’ll have some fun with this one.
At least we may get a wind swell with some nice size 🙂
Something ridable from Thursday on perhaps. Swell and wind chart from magicseaweed.com
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