Surfline up to no good?
The surf has only gotten bigger in California, if such a thing can be imagined. Yesterday, a “swell event” arrived from tip to tail of the Golden State. Massive surf in San Diego, in San Francisco, in Santa Barbara and off Santa Claus Lane too. The only place mercifully spared, Filipe Toledo’s adopted hometown of San Clemente.
Whew for him.
Otherwise big waves everywhere. Blowing right up. Surfline, the country’s premium surf forecasting website, for example, claiming North County San Diego to be “Double Overhead surf continues to mack out the top winter areas with + on that for sure at times. Bottom line this is some serious surf.”
Swamis called 6 – 8ft. (non-Hawaiian).
Though in a stunning accusation, a surfer industry longtimer stood on the bluff, watching the monsters roll and declared the 6 – 8ft to be vicious lies. It’s 8 – 10 with occasional 12, he informed me with much gravitas.
The reason for this major under-call? Well, as you know Surfline has been busy laying-off employees left and right trying to service a massive investment. Some of the surf forecasting has even been outsourced and maybe to artificial intelligence who wishes for adult learners to “know then go” to certain doom?
Nasty, if true.
Though did you surf early today trying to beat the crowds? David Lee Scales and I not. We dutifully sat down, digitally, across from each other and discussed the most important surf-adjacent things happening currently. Like making the perfect martini.
Enjoy.
Commented on Disqus? Log out, tap the Disqus button, and your old name and comments come back. The box is ours.
Your comments are still here. Every one of them.
Twelve years of BeachGrit comments came across from Disqus. Connect and we will show you how many are yours. We get your username, nothing else.
Connect Disqus to reveal.
Surfline forecasts on the east coast of Oz are a joke, they overhype almost every swell event, so much so that we refer to these swells as “internet swells” rather than groundswell or windswell. Can’t comment on the quality of forecasts in the US but down under, they are just monetised cams.
Bro you aren’t man enough to come to Mostoke.com and finish this convo.
You would get mashed if you posted this drivel on mostoke.
2024 is a kookless year broh!
Your troll game is weak. Obvious and to quick to the draw much like an over excited schoolboy with cum stained trousers being yanked out of the women’s underwear department by his mother.
To prove your point. If you’ve ever surfed Malibu, 1st point is never bigger than 3rd point. And even if that were true, it definitely wasn’t 1-2 yesterday.
https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
This Ought To Be Good…
Off topic, how’d you miss this opportunity Chad?
https://www.nytimes.com/202…
Can’t convince me that Surfline’s under-call had nothing to do with these folks thinking where they were was where to be.
https://youtu.be/M2UmWDV9RY…
Most VALs looked at the surf and said “no way”. Some paddled out and got their asses handed to them. A couple did a podcast that a few promise to listen to later. All is right in the world.
I’m a fan of the under-call. Very Australian.
Few times seen the surfline 2-3ft call here but with a 14-18 sec period !!! They got no idea
Learn how to read Buoy’s and local weather conditions.
Do you learn that in Clown College?
You people are intolerable
Wait! You were just born with that face?!
I bet the people in your life hate you. You sound like a narcissist. And people like you make me sick. In fact! People like you make everyone sick! If I learned 1 thing in this world. It’s to keep people like you away from me and out of my life!
You aren’t infatuated with Mick Fanning are you?
a lil’ eugene in all of us
Try drinking your coffee black. No sugar. No cream. Black. Embrace the bitter. Life is much sweeter that way.
I can’t seem to remember the cost of cry.
It’s Free!
Nah,narcolepse are cool,keep them close and use as a pillow
I bet the people in your life are not fond of you!