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Now I don’t care too much for a 50’ swell anyway (t6hough it would be interesting to watch…), but there is the same effect on any swell coming in from the west, it looses most of it’s size before even entering the north sea. Just doesn’t get more graphic than this.
https://twitter.com/bakingjames/status/298714769622462464
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Well, I was impressed to see decent rideable waves on three different days in a week or so when visiting my brother in Scheveningen last year. But, I can sympathize with you. Plus, your water is waaay colder than I would probably like.
Harvard,
Could you explain the color coding and what it means? I don’t see a color key. I’m assuming the yellow dot in the middle is the center of the low pressure stystem? mike
http://www.oceanweather.com/data/
I think he’s setting us up with a mysto chart. The link above, at least for 05Feb13, makes Ireland look active and Norway very pleasant (except for the low sun). You want to housetrade next fall, Haavard??
Jeeze, it looks like Iceland is on the event horizon! I don’t remember ever seeing black before. Is that a singularity?
maybe it’s a hole that leads to the Indian Ocean
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My son surfed this low off Maine a few days ago, 17 feet at 16 seconds
wooo!! Faroe Islands be pumping!!
Sorry for the missing color key. It’s swell height from the chart at magicseaweed. Grey-black is 40-50 feet, dark red 30 feet, yellow 20 feet, turquoise 10 feet.
yeah I guess there is a good reason that alot of the natural harbours in the faroe islands have something like this
I think that they have changed the color key as it didn’t go so high before or lacked detail or linarity in the upper end or something. The swell that hit Nazare last week was similar on the charts. However it is probably caused by a ‘special event’ as the polar vortex did a split in two, changing the weather patterns.
even suggesting a ‘special event’ is dangerous talk.
It plays right into the hoax of global warming.
There is no global warming the change in sea temperatures is only cyclical.
As is the global increase in CO2.
It has been proven by our PhD’s at the Freedom Institute For Freedom From Oppression to Maximum Profits,
that ten thousand years ago, when there were millions more whales in the earths oceans,
their combined flatulence alone raised sea temps by .5 degrees and increased CO2 levels by 3%.
Exactly mimicking current climate conditions, now distorted by the frenzied liberal media global warming hoax as
a man made phenomena due to the excessive use of carbon based fuels.
A hoax perpetuated by the same anti-American liberal media who would also have you believe that cigarettes are bad for you.
Or that guns kill people.
Our PhD’s now have absolute evidence that the current modest blip in increasing ocean temperatures and CO2 levels,
is once again caused by an increase in flatulence.
Due to the increasing birth numbers of those who ingest Mexican food on a regular basis.
It’s absolutely true, just ask Rush. Or Hannity. Or Sarah. Or…
^ That just looks scary.