Suft this weekend?

Burgerman55 · 09-10-2009 9:09am #1

presume it might be a little on the stormy side this weekend?

spaceHopper · 09-10-2009 9:50am

Sunday could be nice if the wind dies

conman78 · 09-10-2009 11:25am

Sunday looking good for NW...East coast today

Burgerman55 · 09-10-2009 12:39pm

east coast?

donga_perkins · 09-10-2009 4:14pm

Can someone tell me where the best waves will be this weekend? Thanks!
BTW I'm willing and able to drive anywhere in the country, if anyone wants a lift!

ThOnda · 09-10-2009 6:54pm

I am looking for somebody who can surf - I have borrowed a little longer lens and therefore I would like to take some pictures of surfers. And if there is a board rental, I might even consider getting wet and cold too.
Any hints much appreciated.

ibh · 09-10-2009 8:53pm

donga_perkins wrote: »

Can someone tell me where the best waves will be this weekend? Thanks!
BTW I'm willing and able to drive anywhere in the country, if anyone wants a lift!

I'm looking for the same info. I checked magicseaweed but it's quite vague. Think i'll just take a chance and head over.

999/112 · 09-10-2009 11:12pm

Try this site; http://www.surfline.com/surfline/forecasts4/forecast_rf.cfm?alias=ireland&county=ireland

This one for general stuff; http://www.yr.no/place/Ireland/Clare/Lehinch/
Monday "am" looking good.

Low Pockets · 10-10-2009 1:24pm

ibh wrote: »

I'm looking for the same info. I checked magicseaweed but it's quite vague. Think i'll just take a chance and head over.

How is it "quite vague"???

Its a forecast, it is what it is?

donga_perkins · 10-10-2009 5:56pm

I also find magic seaweed unreliable. It often says that the waves will be 6-8ft but when you go to the beach it might only be knee high!

Really it should just say what size the waves are going to be at the beach.

seachto7 · 11-10-2009 9:45pm

Lahinch forecast 2ft waves. surely, they were bigger than that today...

cornbb · 12-10-2009 7:18am

seachto7 wrote: »

Lahinch forecast 2ft waves. surely, they were bigger than that today...

Dunno about yesterday but they were pretty big out the back on saturday. At least 4 feet.

jkl · 12-10-2009 9:54am

only slightly smaller sunday.

I've burnt the hell out of my face over the 2 days, was not expecting the brilliant weather.

spaceHopper · 12-10-2009 10:07am

Lad's Magic sea weed basically hands it to you, but you need to read thier tutorial or this one http://www.lajollasurf.org/luds.html

The swell size quoted its the significalt wave height that will give a wave roughtly 1/3 the sice so if it's 2 meteres expect 2 ft....

Learnig to surf is about putting the effort - that includes rearning to read the charts and understand what makes agood swell. If you have a storm riders guide there's a good introduction at the start of the book.

donga_perkins · 12-10-2009 12:44pm

Well why don't they just divide their heights to 1/3 instead of reporting 8ft waves? That would make much more sense. Thanks tho, I'll remember that from now on, divide by 3!

spaceHopper · 12-10-2009 1:30pm

donga_perkins wrote: »

Well why don't they just divide their heights to 1/3 instead of reporting 8ft waves? That would make much more sense. Thanks tho, I'll remember that from now on, divide by 3!

Why Oh Why don't you just learn to read the charts for yourself.

Bythe way - if you use the stars on MSW don't use them on Windguru it's for wind surfers :eek:

donga_perkins · 12-10-2009 3:36pm

what? All I'm saying is that they could easily do the "divide by three" thing and put that up there instead of misleading people. I usually check the stars alright but they're not so accurate.

cornbb · 12-10-2009 3:39pm

donga_perkins wrote: »

what? All I'm saying is that they could easily do the "divide by three" thing and put that up there instead of misleading people. I usually check the stars alright but they're not so accurate.

Neither is dividing by 3... on some days you could divide by 3 and on others you could multiply by 3. Tis a serious business.

donga_perkins · 12-10-2009 3:42pm

Oh sod it so

It's probably best to just ask someone who knows what the waves are gonna be like then!

Low Pockets · 12-10-2009 3:57pm

donga_perkins wrote: »

Well why don't they just divide their heights to 1/3 instead of reporting 8ft waves? That would make much more sense. Thanks tho, I'll remember that from now on, divide by 3!

Because there not reporting 8ft waves, there reporting 8ft of swell!

donga_perkins · 12-10-2009 4:03pm

*sigh* my point was they shouldn't give that prediction, they should just give the prediction of the size of the waves on the beach (by dividing by three or whatever). But apparenlty its not so simple. Sheesh.

Maybe we should start a thread where people can tell everyone where the best waves will be?

Low Pockets · 12-10-2009 4:49pm

donga_perkins wrote: »

*sigh* my point was they shouldn't give that prediction, they should just give the prediction of the size of the waves on the beach (by dividing by three or whatever). But apparenlty its not so simple. Sheesh.

Maybe we should start a thread where people can tell everyone where the best waves will be?

???
Cos thats not how this works. Surfing doesnt get handed to you, you have to work for it.

Its about giving it time, and learning to read conditions. 10ft of swell is just that, 10ft of swell. There's a load of other factors involved in what way that will that 10ft of swell will show up on the beach.

And at the end of the day, its a prediction, all magicseaweed is is a program on a computer, the person who set it up has never even been to most of the places that they are forecasting for (im assuming) it just takes in the charts and spews out a possible outcome. Take 5 minutes and learn the sheer basics about reading the charts and then go to the beach and see what its like! You'll learn more doing that once or twice then you'll ever get by coming onto some forum and saying "wheres the best place this weekend"

If your too lazy to at least try understand the basics why bother?

spaceHopper · 12-10-2009 4:53pm

donga_perkins wrote: »

*sigh* my point was they shouldn't give that prediction, they should just give the prediction of the size of the waves on the beach (by dividing by three or whatever). But apparenlty its not so simple. Sheesh.

Maybe we should start a thread where people can tell everyone where the best waves will be?

Look it's called put the effort in and learn don't expect people to hand it to you.

Fair enough if you try and get stuck with something then you'll get help if you ask, but it bugs the sh1t out of me that people aren't prepared to try but expect to be give the answers. Read LUD's FAQ and this http://magicseaweed.com/news.php?categoryId=7

The reason they don't divide by 3 is that some breaks produce a bigger wave in the same swell, also the angel of the swell and period also make a difference They give you the significant sea height, period and direction the rest is up to your local knowledge .

999/112 · 12-10-2009 9:32pm

spaceHopper wrote: »

Look it's called put the effort in and learn don't expect people to hand it to you.

Fair enough if you try and get stuck with something then you'll get help if you ask, but it bugs the sh1t out of me that people aren't prepared to try but expect to be give the answers. Read LUD's FAQ and this http://magicseaweed.com/news.php?categoryId=7

The reason they don't divide by 3 is that some breaks produce a bigger wave in the same swell, also the angel of the swell and period also make a difference They give you the significant sea height, period and direction the rest is up to your local knowledge .

+1. Wind direction and force is also a factor. [And more]
Wind was ESE this morning in La. & it was fun:) ......until I had to go to work:(

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