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Autumn - How's it lookin?

Posted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 2:20 pm
by Donweather
From where I'm sitting, Autumn looks a whole lot fecking better than the last month or so of summer!!! :evil:

Bring it on I say!!! :D

Re: Autumn - How's it lookin?

Posted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 2:46 pm
by alakaboo
Going on nothing more scientific than gut feel, I reckon we're building into a month's worth of excellence, starting in late March.
Probably centred around the 29th-3rd of April (because I'll be on the other coast then...)

Re: Autumn - How's it lookin?

Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2012 8:45 pm
by steve shearer
Pretty sensational if latest charts come off.

all that S'ly push is gunna see some late season sand slugs go to some interesting places :roll:

Re: Autumn - How's it lookin?

Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2012 10:41 pm
by Donweather
I note that EC is playing it down a fair bit compared with GFS, or at least delaying it past GFS's predictions (which tends to question the reliability).

Anyway, it's not that often I get excited about things in our southern quadrants, but this one's got me excited, probably cause the last month has been so fecking average here.

I've heard a few rumours of some good sandbanks that are well primed awaiting something from the south too!!! :D Shame local winds look like they ain't gonna come to the party for the beaches!!! :twisted:

Re: Autumn - How's it lookin?

Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2012 2:01 pm
by Donweather
Feck Huey is a pr1ck!!! The first time in a while and he looks set to deliver an impressive E/SE groundswell on our shores and what's he decide to do with local winds.....create a small shitty surface low running parallel to the Qld coastline at the same time the swell is expected to arrive.

You are a right pr1ck Huey!!!!

Re: Autumn - How's it lookin?

Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2012 7:28 pm
by crabmeat thompson
Yeah those winds are gonna pretty much destroy it.

You think the winds will reach, say the mid-north coast area?

Re: Autumn - How's it lookin?

Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2012 8:42 am
by steve shearer
Very, very disappointing start to Autumn, all things considered.

Several times the maps have shaped up unbelieveably then we get this crap.

I haven't seen a proper 6 ft wave since Boxing Day.

Re: Autumn - How's it lookin?

Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2012 10:40 am
by Donweather
Should be blaming the models rather than Autumn Steve. The model reliability at present is fecking woeful at best!!!

Re: Autumn - How's it lookin?

Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2012 10:56 am
by alakaboo
told you boys, wait till next weekend.

Re: Autumn - How's it lookin?

Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2012 11:17 am
by Donweather
I blame Carroll for posting up that chart yesterday!!! He's always right with his calls!!!

Re: Autumn - How's it lookin?

Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2012 5:27 pm
by bumfluff
How are we looking for Easter Don?

Re: Autumn - How's it lookin?

Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 1:03 pm
by Donweather
Bum, Swellnet's forecast pretty much sums up my thoughts quite well. Enjoy.

Re: Autumn - How's it lookin?

Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2012 10:26 am
by steve shearer
Funny how the late season monsoonal pattern extended into the equinox (traditional northern hemi start to autumn) then gave us a u-beaut late season E swell run over Easter......not unusual but still....
Now with showers and cool sou-wester in the wake of cold front it feels more like July.
And the sand remains the same.

Re: Autumn - How's it lookin?

Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 9:32 am
by crabmeat thompson
The sand ... god bless the fcuking sand.

Re: Autumn - How's it lookin?

Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 6:57 pm
by bumfluff
What's the best wind direction for Kirra?

I keep seeing SE, that doesn't sound right. Every time I've seen Kirra really barrelling it's been SSW or SW.

How would Kirra go on a straight west wind?

Re: Autumn - How's it lookin?

Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 8:05 pm
by Donweather
Kirra prefers S/SE winds. Any west in the wind and it's crossshore. SW is just bearable IMO.

Re: Autumn - How's it lookin?

Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 8:19 pm
by bumfluff
So when the rest of the goldy is effectively unsurfable, Kirra is pumping perfect barrells??

Re: Autumn - How's it lookin?

Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 8:41 pm
by alakaboo
not quite the rest of the coast, but yes.
Still struggling with maps, I see?