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May 20th, 2012

Tropical Storm Alberto Brings Waves To East Coast

Hurricane season doesn’t officially start until June 1. However, an early system manifested into the first tropical storm of the season bringing waves up and down the east coast from South Carolina to New Hampshire.

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April 11th, 2012

The 51 Year Storm

This storm would have make Bodhi aka Patrick Swayze (R.I.P.) froth at the mouth.

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December 20th, 2011

Alabama Cloud Waves

This has to be the coolest thing to come out of Alabama since Forest Gump. Yesterday, photos of these wave shaped clouds made their rounds on the internet. When I first saw them I immediately thought it was someone screwing…

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November 8th, 2011

Tropical Storm Sean

Just because it’s November it doesn’t mean that Hurricane Season is over. Although activity during this time of year is rare there are still 22 days before the season ends. Last week we saw a pretty heavy nor’easter roll through…

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September 1st, 2011

Hurricane Irene Lights Up The Northeast

Hurricane Irene started out as a broad tropical wave off the west coast of Africa and matured into one of the most damaging storm to wreak havoc on the East Coast in many years. Hurricane Irene caused power outages for…

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August 8th, 2011

I Miss 44025

If there’s one tool I use and depend on the most to check how the waves are, it’s NDBC buoy station 44025. The National Data Buoy Center has over 1000 buoys in the open waters across the globe and the one that…

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August 3rd, 2011

Tropical Storm Emily

I’ve been tracking Emily since before she had a name and she was just a little tropical wave off the coast of Africa. As a surfer on the east coast, it’s the time of the year where I really start…

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July 18th, 2011

Tropical Storm Bret

As we get deeper into the summer, we’re going to see activity in the tropics really ramp up, but we may not have to wait much longer for a little preview of what’s to come. That is thanks to newly formed…

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June 1st, 2011

2011 Atlantic Hurricane Season

June 1st! Today kicks off the first day of the 2011 Atlantic hurricane season. As it is every year, hurricane season brings the hopes of long period ground swell with warm water and warm air temps for surfers up and…

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September 13th, 2010

Hurricane Igor

As of the 11am advisory from the NHC, Hurricane Igor is a very strong Category 4 storm packing winds of 150mph. Most of the east coast should see some decent waves towards the end of this week thanks to Igor….

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August 3rd, 2010

Tropical Storm Colin

Okay East Coast, here we go! The third tropical storm of the season is making his way through the southern Atlantic and it’s looking like we’ll see some waves from this storm. Although Colin won’t have the strength we hope…

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June 29th, 2010

Hurricane Alex

It’s official. As per the 10pm public advisory from the NOAA, the first hurricane of the 2010 Atlantic Hurricane Season is Hurricane Alex. This is also the first Atlantic hurricane in the month of June since 1995. Alex is right…

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June 25th, 2010

Hurricanes and the Oil Spill: The Facts

With the Atlantic Hurricane season already started and already pumping out some tropical activity, I was curious how any tropical storms moving through the gulf would have an effect on the oil spill. NOAA has put out a simple PDF…

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June 2nd, 2010

Atlantic Hurricane Season 2010

Yesterday was June 1st, and you know what that means right? It was the first official day of the 2010 Hurricane season! While most people living on or near the water on the east coast do not look forward to…

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