REALLY

ARE YOU KIDDING, FEBRUARY 24 AND IT'S 57 DEGREES.  GLOBAL WARMING YES PLEASE.  MY LAWN MOWER, WEED EATER AND CHAIN SAW ARE RUNNING RIGHT NOW.  there was a shoulder-chest SW swell today but by lunch time it was sweeping down the beach.  It's suppose to go W tonight and knock a lot of it down but there is always hope for some scraps.  I got out yesterday and was all by myself for 45 mins on a nice spot then one other guy came out and we swapped waves for an hour or so.  Nobody else in sight, after 2hrs I called it a day.  Finally got some good waves (waist or better) on the mini.

global warming? yes please.



waxed and ready

stupid flower

pen and ink

grovelers

Conditions at JMPN7 as of (2:24 pm EST) 1924 GMT on 01/24/2012:

Unit of Measure: English Metric   Time Zone: Station Local Time Greenwich Mean Time [GMT] British Summer Time [GMT+1] Eastern Greenland [GMT-1] Azores [GMT-2] Western Greenland [GMT-3] Atlantic Standard [GMT-4] US/Eastern Standard US/Central Standard US/Mountain Standard US/Pacific Standard Alaska Standard [GMT-9] Hawaii-Aleutian Standard [GMT-10] Samoa Standard [GMT-11] International Date Line West [GMT-12] Western European [GMT+0] Central European [GMT+1] Eastern European [GMT+2] Moscow [GMT+3] USSR Zone 3 [GMT+4] USSR Zone 4 [GMT+5] USSR Zone 5 [GMT+6] USSR Zone 6 [GMT+7] China Coast [GMT+8] Japan Standard [GMT+9] Guam Standard [GMT+10] GMT+11 International Date Line East [GMT+12]   Click on the graph icon in the table below to see a time series plot of the last five days of that observation.
	Wind Direction (WDIR):	S ( 190 deg true )
	Wind Speed (WSPD):	8.9 kts
	Wind Gust (GST):	9.9 kts
	Atmospheric Pressure (PRES):	30.05 in
	Air Temperature (ATMP):	62.2 °F
	Water Temperature (WTMP):	55.2 °F

I have been waiting for a few days for waves and missed the good one a week or so ago.  finally today 3ft @ 5secs.  not great, not good even but a chance to go.  Probably a decent day for the 1st test ride on the new simmons (more on that at a later time).  It was almost to hot for the new 4/3 Ripcurl classic on the beach.  70ish on the beach and 55 in the water are you kidding me?  Last winter this time we had been in a serious cold snap for over a month and the water was in the low 40's and not many days over 50.  I think I'm gonna run my lawn mower a while and maybe burn some trash,too.  Probably shouldn't be to happy March and April it'll most likely snow.  Anyway enjoy it while you can.

Winter Setting In



still dropping overnight

The first Winter blast has come and gone.  Now it's buddy comes roaring down and slamming the SE NC Coast.  The ocean temps, at Wrightsville Beach, fell last week from the low 60's to the upper 50's and now they continue to fall.  I got out for some unsuspected swell on Sunday.  4/3 and boots, no gloves or hood, and ducking resulted in some head freezes.  It's now 51.4 as I post this at Johnny Mercer's Pier and with overnight temps forecast to hit the upper teens it will probably be in the upper 40's before the week is out.  4/3's, boots gloves and hood's will probably be the norm for the rest of Winter.  This sucks!  I was hoping we would make it to mid-January before the water hit the forty's but I got a feeling we will be there soon.  We may be in for a long Winter.  I guess I could live in the North Atlantic somewhere.