Apocalypse tomorrow.
After seemingly years of mild and/or hot days and nights with no more than a bit of dew licking lawns each morning, California is experiencing a wild weather wave. Many feet of snow in the mountains, deluges of water flooding down Los Angeles streets, San Francisco set to be hit by a storm so wild that its like has not been seen in a generation.
The National Weather Service released the stern warning reading, “To put it simply, this will likely be one of the most impactful systems on a widespread scale that this meteorologist has seen in a long while. The impacts will include widespread flooding, roads washing out, hillside collapsing, trees down (potentially full groves), widespread power outages, immediate disruption to commerce, and the worst of all, likely loss of human life. This is truly a brutal system that we are looking at and needs to be taken seriously.”
While caution should certainly be pursued, Ocean Beach surfers are likely licking their lips while waxing their big wave guns.
Any wave slider worth her salt has, of course, made pilgrimage to OB to at least stand on the bluff and watch the brethren paddle for six hours sometimes without reaching the lineup. The more robust has joined them in that paddling, breathing in the cold brine to the point of puking. Very fun but nothing gets the hardened locals off like massive and unruly.
How massive and unruly will it be during the apocalypse? Only time will tell.
Just checkin in from SB (thursday report)….carnage even here, long interval, straight west, waves just lined up WAY outside normal parameters. Sandspit manageble but ugly. Harvest had peak 42 ft wave at 20 seconds last night.
I’m talking about the storms and all the rain Calif is getting.
Have some Ginseng if you don’t feel like you have the energy.
Nice. I miss the days of listening to weather radio and not knowing what it meant exactly other than waves were coming and the hunt would be on. Had to talk to old timers about what it all meant. Excitement not there as much anymore with it all right in your face.
Radio Shack weather cube. Farallon buoy wave heights along with Tomales bay would help us decide whether to drive over to OB or if too big drive the slow windy road over the hill to Bolinas.
Surfline: Your Hired!
I’m gonna head to Mavericks as it looks more manageable, according to Surfline.
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Hmmm, the forecast I see for Mav’s is like 30-40′. That fcst above looks like more of a general overview for the region.
yeah you know that one break with the jetty and the flagpoles and sailboats…it’s gonna have really fucking tubular rights at some point…Josh Pomer told me so.
I am guessing 80-100 guys out.
Minimum…
Chance of you leaving angrier than when you got there- 100%
Jen Sea.
Potato Patch bru… NOT.
Looks like this could dis the global warning pundits…
Blame the surf industry!!
What do you mean?
All the rain Calif and the rest of the country are getting.
Still not making the connection. What does any of that have to do with global warming?
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Just sat and watched the joint for hours once. Fucking huge. Few guys just charging. And the paddle out! An afternoon well spent.
battle of the bands_. let’s fight it out!
This whole weather system needs some kind of “bomb” attached to it. The crazy Right Chrisso’ Fox News face can call it the “San Fran Street cleaner weather bomb” aka – Send all the addicted, homeless and Nancy Pelosi, all to good godd-damn hell bomb. The Greta fans can call it “The Weather Bomb We all knew was coming and have actively been promoting by our gross overuse of fossil fuels” aka – global warming is to blame.
But really, in the end, it’s just a good old fashioned winter storm. That said, half the goddam pacific is purple!
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Remember reading about ” an atmospheric river” that’s gonna get Cali before a major quake…
Looks like this one is going be a banger. Another hot on it’s heels.
Feels unnecessary for those of us still slogging it out.
That “all saints” wave and those Closeout Salt Creek right barrels used to get so much coverage in the mags in the eighties due to how photogenic they were. Perfect lighting for cover shots.
Ditch the board, get smoked, reel your ever-increasingly stretched out leash in, get smoked again and again and again, yeah…no.
Or the leash snaps and now you’re in REAL trouble.
I prefer very tucked in coves.
Why are we doing this?
Paging Lewis Samuels…white courtesy phone.
Probably out of cell phone range north of the Golden Gate.