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 British Isles Surf Prospects 28 January - 7 February 2012
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 Posted by SoulSurfer on Sat 28th Jan, 2012 09:34 |
| Surf Forecast Region: UK | Visited 197 times |
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The weather forecaster's nightmare! The British Isles are an east west battleground!
A strong high over northern europe is pushing cold Siberian winds towards us from the east. Lows out in the Atlantic are pushing warm wet winds from the south west. both are meeting over the Britsh Isles and heading north and there is a waving battlefront running north south that could contain rain or snow and likely to move east and west across the country almost unpredictably.
This could be OK for hardy surfers though because there will be easterly wind waves for the east and westerly wind waves and swells for west coasts. This will continue all week and through next weekend and the west winds look most likely to win the battle some time next week.
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SOUTH WEST AND WALES (and south western Ireland).
Small to medium westerly wind waves and swell for most of the week details of peaks are a bit unreliable.
EAST COAST (Thurso area, use this and Far NW ).
Easterly winds developing during the week to bring some wind waves that should get well into the medium size range but will be very short period and messy
FAR NORTH WEST OF SCOTLAND AND IRELAND.
Small to medium westerly wind waves and swell for most of the week details of peaks are a bit unreliable.
CHANNEL COAST (east of Start Point).
very small to flat
Activities and Comments.
Sorry events conspired and preventing me from updating on Friday. better late than never
The measurement of waves and surf quality is a vexed question and there is a lot of false Macho attitude "the bigger the better" around. This in my experience is not true for most people. There are also those who suggest that unless the surf is peeling perfectly and glassy smooth it is no good. Good medium sized surf in my book is usually in the range of 2-3ft with moderate winds either on, cross or offshore and cleanish faces. In other words the sort of stuff that comes around quite frequently and not just classic days. Small surf is in the 1-2ft region but should be rideable by most (if you can't ride this sort of surf your board is too small!) large surf is in the 4-6ft range and gets scary. If I think that the surf is going to be particularly good I will indicate it clearly for those who only go to the coast for special days.
You are welcome to ask a question or add a comment below. I will try to answer it by the time I post my next report and I will leave the answer up for a few days.
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