Representin' Follyhood!!!!

Why is it so windy at the beach you may ask yourself?  It's because of Invest 98.  She's a disorganized mess of tropical air that can't get her act together.  Even if she did get her act together, 98 is just too close to do anything cool, aka give us waves.

The NHC is saying the upper level winds may begin to organize themselves over the next few days but there is only a 20% chance of 98 becoming a Tropical Cyclone. 

At least something is happening.  Look for disorganized windswell all weekend.

MikeC

Too bad the waves didn't get their act together yesterday.  The wind never really cooperated, the rain wasn't hard enough to clean it up, and I didn't feel like getting my camera wet (insert hater comment here).  But lets see whats poppin in the tropics.


AKA.....NOTHINGGGGG :(

....for us

Sure there is an added chance for tropical development in the Gulf of Mexico but like I said last week, it does absolutely nothing for us here.

There is a ray of sunshine though...

It's tough to see but if you look all the way on the right hand side of map; located on the African coast you'll see a little green and white lined region.  The green and white region indicates the forecasters are expecting above average rainfall.  This is where many of our major hurricanes are born.  Huge tropical rain storms come barreling out of the rain forests of Africa and grow into the monsters we need to produce real waves.

So above average rainfall in the baby making region for hurricanes is a good sign... I think.

Navigate over to the Thomas Bros Blog if you would like to see a few pics from yesterday.

MikeC

First legit summer swell of the year.  The waves currently in the water are from a storm that developed far far away in the tropical Atlantic region.  I was surprised with not only the size and cleanliness of the waves but also the consistency, which are things we rarely see all working together here.  And can you say crowds?  I never even knew that many people lived here. **These photos are all from mid morning. Justin over at FollyHood took some more photos around noon time. Watch for those.**













All I request from you Facebook posters is this 'check out more at follysurf.blogspot.com'  just a lil credit.

MikeC

The waves were small this morning but were clean.  I took a few snaps before I decided to jump in myself.  Lot's of people out though.  Maybe everyone is getting ready for the 'swell' coming this weekend.  Let's just all be polite when the waves come and try not to run over all the people from Kentucky who've never seen the ocean before*. 

*I like people from Kentucky, my roommate is from there.


MikeC

95L is what you are looking at.  She's predicted to meander to the West into Mexico and do absolutely nothing for the East Coast.

I found something cool in the depths of the National Hurricane Center's website though.  It is a 2 week 'Global Tropical Hazards Assessment' map.  Basically it shows what could possibly happen in the tropics around the globe.  Whether tropical storm development is favorable or it will be exceptionally dry or exceptionally wet in a particular tropical region.

What I will do is post up the map every 2 weeks it comes out and I'll explain it to my best ability.  Here's the map.

If you live along the Gulf you might see a tropical storm develop in the southern part of the Gulf which may or may not produce some fun surf.  I don't really care.

What I am looking at is the above average rainfall in the tropical area of Africa.  I'm no meteorologist but if it starts storming over in the African rainforests those storms only have one place to go; the Atlantic.  All we need is some warm water and and favorable climate conditions and voila, we'll have our for "Cape Verde Tropical Storm."  But I'm getting ahead of myself.  It's still early in the season so we must wait and hope for a storm to develop over the Caribbean.

MikeC

Over the past few days we've been experiencing some smokey conditions from a few forest fires in the area.  This made for some weird shooting conditions but the pictures came out alright. That is all I have to say I'm late for work.

MikeC