Surf Report 1/02/09
Pensacola Beach 1:45pm: Small surf this morning increasing in size this afternoon. Should be up near waist high by late afternoon. Surf should hold throughout the weekend, smaller on Sunday.
Surf Report 11/16/08
Upham Beach 11:00am: Surf is up, around waist high at Upham. Probably a little bigger in Clearwater or down south around Pass-a-Grille. High tide is around 3pm. Posting some pictures from yesterday on the home page.
Surf Report 9/12/08
Upham Beach 9:20am: Surf remains up. It is about waist high at Upham and bigger everwhere else. I would expected it to be about chest high in Pass-a-Grille. There will be at least small surf through the weekend. Hurricane Ike should make landfall in Texas this evening as a Cat. 3. Hopefully it sucked some of the energy out of the gulf so that no major hurricanes form after this one.
Surf Report 9/9/08
Upham Beach 9:30am: No surf. Conditions are still flat. Looking for Hurricane Ike to start its push. Looks like again we will have offshore winds that will cause some clean conditions. Only issue I have with that is that the window of opportunity for surf is going to be small like we had with Dolly. I think the push will begin mid to late Wednesday and into Thursday. Hope we get some good swell filling in before that, but it is a wait and see. As always with this scenario, it will sneak up on us. It will be flat and then all of the sudden start to build to near waist high. Ike is a Cat 1 expected to build to a Cat 2 today.
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.