Reading Surf Forecasts: But how do I know if it’s going to be good?

Reading Surf Forecasts: But how do I know if it’s going to be good? This article is part 4 of a series about reading surf forecasts. Here are the first, second and third articles. We surfers have one goal — finding out when and where the best waves in our travel radius are going to be and making …

Reading Surf Forecasts: Swell Height

This is the third post in a series about reading surf forecasts. Here are the first and second articles. Swell Height[1] is a deceptively difficult thing to measure. The first thing to realize is that this isn’t an objective number — it doesn’t correspond one-to-one with any specific thing in reality. Instead, it’s a number that should …