September come she will, when surfers hope we’ll get our fill. Of waves both thick and plenty tall, make the drop, stand, don’t fall. The storms that send our shorelines juice, must come not too close or we’ll feel the noose. Low pressure spins in a cyclonic fashion, wax down those boards, it is our passion!
All right, rhyming aside, September is here folks! Hooray! Let’s hope those summer doldrums are behind us (as of the third week of August we’d still had no decent storm swells). Does a below-average August mean better to come in September? Not necessarily, but September is the peak month for good storm swells and almost always ranks as one of the year’s better months. We’ll have to hope the African dust settles back down. (Some neighbors reported dirty rain falling down their white walls. African dirt again is making it to our shores?!) If hurricane season stays slow it doesn’t mean a surfless month. September can also bring low pressure coming from the other way, down across the plains of North America and off its eastern shores out into the North Atlantic. Then, its north swells on, game on, big-wave boards on. Yeah, it’s a month to expect some size, some power. My bet at this point of a quiet storm season would be for more of those frontal swells than hurricane swells.
Spearfishermen be aware. Numerous reports have come in about many female crawfish still bearing eggs when season opened August 1. Try to inspect your bug whenever possible. Do we need to establish a new season to match this pattern?
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