FEBRUARY FEAST Frigid Weather, Freezing Water Temps, And Fabulous Waves Keep On Keepin’ On By Nick McGregor
Newsflash: it’s been cold this winter. Really
cold… like one of the coldest winters ever, since weathermen started collecting
data back in the 1800s. More than 10 days of record-setting low temps in
Florida. Snow in Pensacola, Savannah, and Charleston for the first time in a
decade. Over 60 inches of accumulation in the Delmarva and New Jersey areas.
Winter wonderlands in Washington, DC, snow days on the Outer Banks, gridlock on
the highways, plowing budgets over-extended, heaters, snow shovels, and winter
coats sold out in stores up and down the coast.
But there have been waves. Thank God, because we’d
all be insane by now if it weren’t for rifling pointbreaks in 35-degree water
up north. Heaving tubes in 39-degree water in the Mid-Atlantic. Or macking
groundswell in the warm-water paradise of the Caribbean. Central Florida’s
probably suffered the most this winter, with north/ northwest energy passing
right by in the form of humps on the horizon, but the Sunshine State finally
got a pulse last week, right before the state’s entire surfing population
evacuated the persistent cold for Puerto Rico. As for South Florida? Let’s just
say clear blue water, mysto refraction swells, and pumping reefbreaks really do
exist in the Southeast, contrary to popular belief.
So while most of us moan and wail about the coldest
winter ever and the global warming hoax and how much we hate wetsuits and the
astronomical cost of airline baggage fees, a few lucky surfers among us are
scoring, and scoring hard. The spring thaw is coming, but until then, savor
this February Feast.
THE OLD IN-OUT
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Along The Graveyard Of The Atlantic... Let's Hope Hurricane Season Doesn’t Dish
Out A Bit Of The Old Ultraviolence
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Attendance Rumors And Category 4 Hurricane Bill Zooming In. Will You Blow Town To
Bro Down Or Sit Tight And Get Right?
