Tuesday 3/9/2010
Pensacola Beach 9:30am: Surf is continuing to build today. About thigh high conditions right now building to rib to chest throughout the day. Overhead tomorrow, will try to get out and get some pictures tomorrow.
Hurricane Ira Surf
Looks like a lot of wind and rain in the surf report for tomorrow and into Tuesday as Pensacola Beach readies for Hurricane Ira. The surf is pretty big out there right now. Overhead conditions with some strong east winds causing rip currents and a strong longshore current. As the storm appoaches I expect the wind to stay east and then eventually going north Tuesday around noon. I am anticipating a hit to the east of us, the trick is going to be getting out on the beach at that time for the good offshore conditions. I am going to try to get out there Tuesday for some photos if possible, I work on the beach so should be able to come up with some excuse.
Surf Report 12/12/08
Upham Beach 9:00am: Surf is big, looks like it is chest high at Upham, breaking at about 1 to 2 foot overhead on the offshore bars. Going to head out that way and try to get some pictures here in a bit. Now’s the time to go. Should be some smaller leftovers on Saturday.
Costa Rica Report
Hurricane Gustav Synopsis
Well, like Dolly (Unlike Fay) we had some good surf for an extended amount of time. Hurricane Gustav surf showed up small on Saturday night and held through Tuesday afternoon. It seemed like no surf really got to us until the storm center was about due west of us in the Gulf of Mexico.
With the storm reaching Category 3 strength south of us I thought we would be in for some overhead conditions but they never really got that big at Upham Beach. Though there were some larger waves breaking out beyond the pass. A report from Jorge Pagan in Bradenton was that surf did reach 1-2 feet overhead down there on Sunday afternoon but the biggest waves in St. Pete were probably in the chest high range.