QuikCAST
Surf Forecast - Florida
5 Day Surf Forecast
Forecast
Updated:
Tuesday, April 29, 2008 8:35 PM
GMT
QuikCASTs will not be updated 5/1 thru 5/10 - We'll be on vacation.
Surf Scale: 3 ft = waist high, 4 ft = chest high, 5 ft = head high, 10 ft =double overhead Swell Direction is direction swell is coming from. 90°=East, 180°=South, 270°=West, 360-0 = North
Florida East Coast Surf Forecast (Centered on Cocoa Beach)
Day
Trend
Wind
(kts)
Details
(Swell Number, Swell Size & Period, Arrival Time and Profile)
Waves
(Set wave max face height)
Swell Direction
Wednesday
4/30
Down some
NE 10 early
Nova Scotia swell 2.9 ft @ 12 secs and fading
Weak high pressure to move over the Carolinas setting up a light northeasterly flow over exposed waters. No indication of windswell generation potential though.
3 ft
57 degrees
Thursday
5/1
Down
SE 10 early
Swell 1.7 ft @ 10 secs
High pressure to be pushing off the Southeast coast generating 15 kts fetch all pushing directly into the Southern Bahamas, but offering no potential for Central Fla.
1.5 ft
55 degrees
Friday
5/2
Down
SE 10 early
No swell of interest forecast
High pressure to be locked east of Georgia generating a mild 15 kt east fetch pushing into the Bahamas, but all shadowed relative to Central Fla. Solid north winds are to be generated well out beyond this aimed at Barbados as the high interacts with low pressure in the mid-Atlantic.
1 ft or less
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Saturday
5/3
Down
S 5-10 early
No swell of interest forecast
The high to remain stationary off Georgia pushing more weak fetch into the Bahamas, but nothing at Central Fla.
1 ft or less
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Sunday
5/4
Down
SW 10 early
No swell of interest forecast
The Georgia high to be faded out, with not swell producing fetch indicated.
1 ft or less
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Extended
Outlook
Down
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The models suggest as the high fades out weak low pressure to drift off the Northeast coast Mon-Wed (5/7) generating 20 kt northwest fetch aimed out towards Puerto Rico, but otherwise nothing of interest forecast in our swell window.
