No Wind but rain, please! It's been very dry the last few seasons. Rain! Sweet Rain!! Just rained again in California and Northwest! Crazy year
for weather, no?! Good site, gracias. TioEli - 5-23-2011 at 10:13 AM
Ojala!baja1943 - 5-23-2011 at 12:07 PM
If the guvment sez so it must be *****************LancairDriver - 5-23-2011 at 12:45 PM
Is this prediction because mother nature is expending all energy in tornado's this year? Very sad devastation in Missouri last night, right on the
heels of the storms through the south last week.These people need a lot of help.comitan - 5-23-2011 at 02:56 PM
Well I have been telling everyone there's going to be a big one this year, we will see who's right.woody with a view - 5-23-2011 at 05:05 PM
as long as they swing around cabo and track straight north......
PRAY4SURF!
'92 was a very good year
oladulce - 5-24-2011 at 10:16 AM
Ah- HAA!
I was beginning to think I'm just an aging old fart in my surfing twilight years with nothing left but foggy memories. I was pretty sure I didn't just
dream those days of glorious, glassy, reeling hurricane waves, when the air's hot and the water's like a bathtub, watching afternoon thunderstorms
build up over the mesas. Surfing for so many hours I resorted to taking Advil so I could stay out longer, and worrying at 30-something that I was
getting old.
Huddled around the short wave radio for the twice a day NWS report: tick-tock-tick... (remember that anybody?). Sitting under the sunshade with copper
wire strung around the poles to boost the antenna signal. Trying to write down the storm coordinates as fast as the computer voice spat them out.
Other campers convening at the back door of our pop-up waiting for our "hi-tech" radio-weather fax to spit out the latest chart which showed ANOTHER
storm developing off Acapulco and strengthening as it headed Northwest. High fives and smiles all around. Thinking "I can't wait to retire and we'll
get to surf it like this all the time".
I didn't think my memory was that bad but I'd swear I haven't surfed beautiful hurricane waves like that since the early 90's- '92 in particular.
But there it is on that NOAA chart and narrative -
"ongoing conditions have been suppressing eastern Pacific seasons since 1995".
It's disheartening to realize that I may never get to ride waves like those again in what's left of my surfing lifetime. All depends on mother nature.
They say we're nearing a "Niņo-Neutral" position with no big changes expected in the foreseeable future.
Somewhere we've got a home movie of some of those waves. In the final scene it's sunset and I've just gotten out of the water and am reaching for the
sunshower with my arms feeling like noodles from all the paddling.
From behind the camera BigWooo asks me "what just happened?"
Me (smiling): "The best day of my life".
I'm very thankful for those memories. I haven't given up hope yet and as my husband says "Bring on The BOY!"Cypress - 5-24-2011 at 10:33 AM
oladulce, Yea, the NOAA weather guy on the radio, he'd just keep on droning away. And the hurricane season predictions every year since Katrina?
They've predicted many storms and there were few. No credibility! The best day of my life? Still working on it!Bajatripper - 5-24-2011 at 10:57 AM
I hope you're right, Comitan. We could sure use the rain, as others have said. I'd gladly take the winds, too, if a hurricane is the only way to
deliver the wet stuff. We are dry, dry, dry down here. Makes for crappy pictures and dry waterfalls.BajaRat - 5-24-2011 at 11:16 AM
oladulce,
Those were good times. We'll see what the future holds. "AT THE TONE UNIVERSAL COORDINATED TIME WILL BE"oladulce - 5-24-2011 at 02:45 PM
Quote:
Originally posted by BajaRat
oladulce,
Those were good times. We'll see what the future holds. "AT THE TONE UNIVERSAL COORDINATED TIME WILL BE"
That's it BajaRat!reneske - 5-24-2011 at 05:39 PM
I hope for those of us who have damaged homes or lost homes during Jimena in Mulege, have a no hurricane season. We have had more than our share in
the last 5 years and need a break. We are hoping for the best for our little town. We need a few years for recovery from what we have experienced
during the last 5 years. It has been devastating for our little town.woody with a view - 5-24-2011 at 06:04 PM
Dulce
i used to do the same thing NOB with my radio shack weather radio. i'd plot the co-ords and me and the boys would take our boards to work, leave at
3pm and be surfing Calafia (Mushrooms) by 4pm. we would drive down onto the beach where there are now condos towers growing along the shore. we'd grab
some tacos in rosarito and be home by 8-9pm depending if the border wait was 5 cars or 50. i still have the charts.
