East Coast waves sucked this last year or two or is..

..IT me?

I am not sure about you NE folks
but
Imho the SE really has sucked the last year or two for any consistent swell..
and
My region of Florida has been excessively bad Crying or Very sad

for much of anything

waz up wit dat Question

Anyone else of this perception?

El nino?

This winter we've had some great surf, but few and far between. What seems to have happened in our neck of the woods is the cold fronts came in too close together not allowing the SE swell to have a chance to build for a few days, so most of our swell this winter was the occasional NE ones. And cold as sh#t too!

el nino- the most epic winter ever!

for us as that's when we have lots of depressions, tropical storms and hurricanes. Someone always gets creamed, but we at least get real good waves those years.

We do not live in a swell rich environment in Florida. We do not get southern hemi's, northern hemi's, and have all those islands shadowing your coast. Like someone said of east coast surfers, "when it's on, you have to be on it".

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Steve Riordan
Woodbine, GA.

But then it is only my second winter of surfing. I saw waves I had never scene in south florida. Today I went out in Wilmington area. I thought the surf was fantastic but the guy I was with gave up and told me it sucked. It was waste to shoulder high with occasional over head waves. True, a lot of the waves were closing out and with a light south easterly wind it was difficult to get a good line. When I told him that this would be epic surf in Miami he didn't believe me. He told me yesterday he can usually surf three to four days a week. He'd be hard press to surf three to four days in a year in Miami if he were that picky.

But I miss that warm south florida water. The water is in the 50s here and the air temp is in the low 60s!

New England last year sucked. Total El Nino year. Hoping for La Nino this year and some consistent hurricane's sitting in the North Atlantic idling and producing constant 3-4ft swell.

Hate to say this but we have had very few unsurfable days, and lately waist to chest glassy west wind glass. Sometimes inside the jetty, sometimes out. The most difficult thing to deal with was the cold. BRrrrrrr.

I gotta say, this winter has been really consistent with regards to good size and conditions. Seemed like it was front after front that would bring chest to shoulder high waves with clean, peeling faces. I think I surfed at least once every week for all of January and February. March has been very quiet though.

Hoping for some nice storm surf this spring and summer.

you all on the East coast differently than it affects us on the Texas coast. If a front creates a NE flow, then we get real big surf, and that did happen a few times this winter. But usually, we have longer time periods between fronts which gives us a SE flow build-up before the next front. Plus, our fronts this winter have blown in so hard, they mostly have knocked the surf down.

(Corrected links as per Willz msg below)

Ok it's just my beach.. Crying or Very sad

For example, cam near my break

http://www.sunny.org/webcam/

flat Crying or Very sad

1/2 hour north, same ocean, same coastline facing nearly same direction.

http://www.surfline.com/surf-report/lake-worth-pier-florida_5604/

Waves! wtf? Evil or Very Mad

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	asspaddler wrote:
	Ok it's just my beach.. For example, cam near my break http://www.surfline.com/surf-report/lake-worth-pier-florida-hdcam_5604/0/ flat 1/2 hour north, same ocean, same coastline facing nearly same direction. http://www.surfline.com/surf-report/lake-worth-pier-florida-hdcam_5604/0/ Waves! wtf?

I tried those links and got "Pipeline, HI shown (recorded from a Premium HD Cam 2/10/10). "

Sorry your local break isn't working today. Funny thing is I feel the same way about cocoa beach compared to Juno Beach. Going up there is always worth the drive for the cleaner waves.

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Palm Beach Gardens, FL
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We even had "some" surf on the lake side of the state!