Sunday surf, nothing. There may be an hour or two of longboard ridable waves, but anything called a swell has left the 20 and 120 mile buoy already.
But we did have some really fun stuff. I will have a few pictures from Saturday mid-morning surf from Slater Lane break. Some waist and some chest high waves, perfect glass kinda stuff.
Also, I’ll be posting some of the big waves photos here in a day or so.
I will be a happy individual when I get my hands on an SLR, but for now, I am content with accumulating photos from friends and associates 🙂
I don’t see anything down the pipe; that TD 10 doesn’t seem to be strenghtening now, and a Disturbance below Cape Verde off of Africa, is an area of interest, and the cool thing is, it’s getting close, its only 3970 miles from Daytona ;(
Rest up, enjoy the talk about the great surf that you had, the nut that cut you off, the fact that you had the b_ _ _s to paddle into the big (for Florida) , waves that we had.
Phone cam shots ;( Knee to thigh on the South side of the pier around 11 Am Thursday morning.
Thursday night update from noon forecast (8:45 Pm).The winds are now looking like SSW at daybreak and SW at 9 Am and N at 10 Am, then going onshore. Get out early. The 120 buoy has hit 4 feet at 8 and 9 seconds, if it hits 4.5 to 5 feet and holds at a few hits at 9 seconds, I still believe we will see some chest high sets. Otherwise, maybe just waist, but I’m still optimistic. The models just now changed and are showing Friday morning to be smaller, 1.5 feet at 8 seconds as opposed to 2.5 feet at 8 seconds as it was showing the last couple days for Friday morning. So if the 120 goes up from what I said above, then we’ll be good, otherwise, knee to thigh. Ouch. Ending 8:45 Pm Thursday nite update.
Below is the original report from noon today.
My apologies, I didn’t update Tuesday night, and I will try not to make promises I can’t keep. Ouch!
Okay, on to more ‘impotant’ things. We have a little swell among us. I checked it out from Hightowers, Hangers, O’Club, also the High Tide break in South Cocoa Beach, The Pier and Johnson Ave. It looked ridable everywhere if you had patience to wait for the sets, but the pier did look most consistent when I checked it at 11ish.
I took a few pics at the pier with my phone, yeah, very weak quality, but at least you can see the size on the Southside.
I definitely saw some waist high waves out there among the set waves down south. (waist high for a 6 footer, since a guy I talked to at O’Club told me he had a head high drop on one wave, he emphasized head-high for him:)
It looks like we have a middle of the road between a wind swell and a ground swell, a low period swell, with peaks for take off, as opposed to long lines. I believe Friday morning some time we will have some chest high sets rolling in down south, at least on the bigger sets. The winds ought to be 3 to 5 mph SW offshore at daybreak Friday, and swinging around to the NNW by 10 or 11 Am, to NNE by lunch.
Phone cam shot two, South side of pier.
So, Friday waist to chest high with offshore winds (3 to 6 mph SW to NW by 10ish), low tide is around 5:45 Am at the Cape, so anytime after 7 Am will probably be good.
Saturday is looking a little bigger, but onshore in the Am. Weather.com is telling me NNE around 5 to 7 mph, Magicseaweed.coms models are showing S to SE for Saturday morning, but I don’t think their model is updated yet. Friday night we’ll give ya an update on the winds, and I may tonight if it looks like it will change from what I have now.
Sunday, the size drops a little, but as it stands, we may have continued waves for a few days.
Also, we may get a strong swell from the Tropical Disturbance down below Cuba which the models are showing some chest high to head high waves coming, so we’ll keep ya posted on that.
Have a fun surf sesh today, Friday morn, or whenever 🙂
Phone cam shot no. 3 Southside of pier, 11 Am ish.
Sunday mid-morning photo in Satellite Beach, August 7 2011. Taken by a friend, Mike Melito
The last day of Emily was Sunday (4 great days, nothing huge but a few head high sets on the drop), and it was a great day in Satellite at RC’s and Hightowers ! I surfed the morning which was stomach high and perfect glass, but it kicked up to chest high as the tide brought in more water.
If you surfed Emily in Cocoa Beach or the Cape, you probably missed the best size because of the angle of the swell. Also, when the winds were mostly SSW, the only place to surf that is South of Minuteman Causeway, and for the size south of the Streets from 2nd light or maybe O Club and South. Great surf, 4 days of it!
This is the official Chasing Monsters trailer video. The link to the 2010 Pico Alto contest is below at the Chasing Monsters website. As shown today on Magicseaweed.comthe Pico Alto in Peru is on. Quote “the world’s top big wave crazies will compete at the Billabong Pico Alto 2011– Copa Burn”. If you want to see last year’s video on the Pico Alto 2010, check out the video at the ChasingMonsters.com website, and as of today it is the 4rth video to scroll down to.
Waves coming, maybe ! Upcoming low pressure system swell headed our way! The models show that it hits Wednesday and keeps rolling for 3 plus days. Don’t know when we will half offshore winds, nor am I 100% sure the swell will hit, but the models show a nice SE swell in the 3 to 4 foot range with a high period of 11 or 12 seconds, so it’s definitely ground swell.
Friday morning, August 12 2011, 3 Tropical Disturbances being tracked from Africa, headed our way, 2 of which have a 40% chance of becoming a Hurricane within 48 hours, compliments of Stormpulse.com
FRIDAY MORNING UPDATE OF YESTERDAYS POST ON TROPICAL DISTURBANCES! We have 2 each 40% Trop. Disturbances and one 20% that have a chance of becoming a Cyclone (Hurricane, yeah I know you know 🙂 , all three came from our normal storm birthing ground, that of the Cape Verde Islands off the coast of Africa. The image is compliments of Stormpulse.com my favorite hurricane tracker site.
We’ll keep ya posted.
NOTE: JOHNSON AVENUE SURFERS will be moving to a new server in the next month and the URL will be johnsonavenuesurfers.com instead of j-avenue-surfers.com (we were gonna keep it low key, but we wanna give it more exposure and reach)
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
Stormpulse.com shows an elongated area of low pressure approaching the lesser antilles.
The fine art of “guessing surf” takes it late summer turn toward ‘Cane’ season….Maybe 🙂 But, this does have potential, feel free to click on the map to read up on the Tropical Disturbance.
At Stormpulse.com, quote “Conditions are expected to remain favorable for a tropical depression or tropical storm to form, and this system has a high chance, near 100 percent, of becoming a tropical cyclone during the next 48 hours as it moves west-northwestward near 15 mph.” This was from their Sunday early evening report.
The image is the low pressure system as of 7 Pm Sunday night, about 321 miles SE of Antigua.
The models are showing that we could have a few days of chest high waves with some offshore winds, but….those are the models. We’ll follow this thing to see if it does deliver to us for Thursday thru Monday.
Imagine this wave for Sunday morning 😉 My buddy Rob surfing Costa Rica in June of 2008, at Ollies.
Our wind swell hit the 120 buoy around 11 Am this morning and has jumped up to 5.5 feet at 8 seconds from 3.3 feet at 7.
As long as the ESE winds prevail to bring the swell on in, I believe we will have some stomach to maybe chest high waves down south. (maybe Lori Wilson, but best bet would be 2nd light and south) This swell came at a fairly steep angle from the NE, though the winds have switched around to the ESE, I would rather take my chances down south.
The winds are showing showing straight North from daybreak till 9 or 10 and then NE, so its a tough call. 2nd light and south with North winds would be onshore winds, but 4 to 7 degrees offshore at Lori Wilson to 4rth Street North. But there is a chance the winds could go NNW or even NW, and since the winds are only 3 to 5 mph, it may not really matter.
Anyhow, Sunday and Monday morning both look to be stomach to chest high, Sunday with North winds until 10, and then onshore, and Monday is showing ENE to NE winds around 6 to 8 mph at daybreak so Sunday looks like the best day.
Whatever, at least we should have some waves to paddle out to and it is summer so count your blessings 🙂
If the winds do something funky and don’t bring the swell in, then go borrow a SUP 🙂
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