JetStream Models
Jet Stream models from Storm Surf show a steady west/east flow from New Zeland straight across to Chile. This flow is cutting off all storm development and it ain’t changing anytime soon.
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August 13th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
dood. tell me about it. we ain’t gettin dink down here. last year we had 14 storm systems come through. this year we’ve had 3 so far and we’re more than half way through our storm season. not good. Also, in addition to no storm swell, we are getting something ridiculous like 1/8 the normal rain we should be getting. It hasn’t rained heavily in two weeks. It should be raining like 3 inches *every night*. all the green is already dying, this usually happens in December. I bet crops are in trouble. Gonna be a long hard winter.
August 13th, 2008 at 7:24 pm
Ouch.
August 14th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
dood. i take everything i said above back. It just rained like a foot in 2 hours. flooded our kitchen and almost flooded the rest of the house. thank gizzod we were home at the time. gnar gnar. The entire street was filled with 3 inches of water, I followed it to the beach. An impromptu waterfall from the street on to the beach with a 30 foot wide flowing river into the ocean, with the most perfectly formed 1 foot tubes. I f I was like 2 feet tall, I’d be stoked.
August 18th, 2008 at 11:11 pm
[…] The surf has been dead. I’m sure there’s been some small waves here and there, but no real swells to speak of. This summer has been a total bummer. We are mid way through the season and we’ve only had 3 storm systems pass our way. Last summer we had something like 14. Something about the storm angle being off and heavier than normal jetstream flow across Chile. Global bummer. […]