A great disturbance.
It has been a wild summer for California’s southern third. June opened a wild run of swell that, really, hasn’t quit. Day after day after day of mostly plus-sized surf pounding away. Such is the consistency that beaches are eroding at a record clip. Sunbathers, of course, bummed but surfers thrilled, though worry is starting to percolate.
The National Hurricane Center is keeping a close eye on a developing disturbance southwest of Mexico, dubbed Invest EP95, with environmental conditions favorable for further organization.
I.e. becoming a full blown hurricane that could hit the coast on Labor Day (Sept. 7).
KTLA weatherman Kaj Goldberg declared, “This is the disturbance that, if it does form and come together, could make its way right into Southern California about one week from today.”
Spaghetti models (see above), called such because the projections look like li’l noodles, are showing a slight possibility of a direct hit but better safe than sorry, no?
Southern California surfers, those born and raised on the west coast, are not used to hurricanes like our east coast sisters and brothers but the look/feel of hurricane preparation has always had a sexy edge. Bare chested men hammering sheets of plywood over windows, women in Daisy Dukes running to the grocery store to horde water, families sitting on the porch drinking sweet tea and watching the clouds roll in after depositing all the surfboards under the house and putting the goats in the kitchen.
East coast surfers, do you have any advice?
Thank you in advance.