RIGHTSIDE RESURRECTION April’s
Holy Week Delivers Sunny Skies, Warming Temperatures, And Rising Swell To Surf-Starved East Coasters By Nick McGregor
Spring is typically one of the East Coast’s most transitory seasons — some years, complex weather systems will produce swell after swell, while in other years (see 2009), high pressure often lingers, rendering the entire Rightside hot, flat, and dormant.
For 2010, Easter preparations began with a nasty upper-level storm pushing through the Sunshine State last Sunday, dragging mini-tornadoes and heavy thunderstorms in its path. By Monday, the fast-moving system began migrating up the coast, turning into a nasty nor’easter that flooded areas of New England and fueled a five-day run of surf for locations as disparate as sunny Puerto Rico and frigid Nova Scotia. It wasn’t epic, it wasn’t out of control, and in many places, it wasn’t even that cold — several high-temperature records look to fall all the way into the Canadian Maritimes over the next couple of days — but it was just what the Right Coast doctor ordered after the coldest winter in over 50 years.
Next up? Another winter storm crosses the country’s mid-section this week, exiting off the North Carolina coast Friday and possibly lighting up the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast next weekend. With El Niño’s debilitating grip loosening, it looks like this will be an East Coast spring to remember.
THE OLD IN-OUT
The 2009 WRV Outer Banks Pro Presented By Hurley Is Moving Ahead Like Clockwork
Along The Graveyard Of The Atlantic... Let's Hope Hurricane Season Doesn’t Dish
Out A Bit Of The Old Ultraviolence
BILL OF SALE Surf Expo Comes To Town Early With Lower-Than-Usual
Attendance Rumors And Category 4 Hurricane Bill Zooming In. Will You Blow Town To
Bro Down Or Sit Tight And Get Right?
