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December 19, 2005
power surge
TUESDAY...surf will still be giant as this long lasting northwest swell continues. buoy readings from the northwest buoy have maintained surf heights above the 15ft threshold. althought they've bounced around a bit there seems to be little evidence that the swell is dropping significantly. models from wavewatch 3 are forecasting waveheights of 15ft all the way through tomorrow morning. this seems to be the case as last night the surf at buoy 1 reached near 20ft, and then droppped slightly to 15ft today. and then went up again to 18ft as another surge seemed to occur around mid-day. power readings shot up to near 120m^2/hz this afternoon and was the most powerful reading of the winter so far and a far ahead of last night's peak recording of around 60-70m^2/hz. the intitail thought was that the swell was going to have several pulses and this seems to make sense with the buoy readings over the last 24hrs. tomorrow expect waves near 12=15ft in the morning and then a slow decline for the afternoon. winds are going to be lighter and possible swinging more east.
Posted by megaprober at December 19, 2005 10:19 PM