Gangbusting Storm = ?

PURPLE PEOPLE EATER: This is the stuff that surfers' dreams are made of in SA. Photo Windy

It could get interesting after fun, clean 4-5ft sets grow more frequent on the pushing tide this afternoon, with occasional bigger sets especially as the sun starts going down. The breeze started a little devilish to WNW but soon a perfect straight westerly groomed the building lines into perfection, and this should last all day. In fact, it looks like the wind freshens all day, and turns into a buster into the evening.

The swell today is from 234 degrees, which is on the west side of pure SW at 225 degrees, so expect nice lulls punctuated by clean kiff 4-5ft sets with the occasional bigger one, particularly after the low tide at 9am turns when the tide starts to come in properly from about 1 to 2pm, when some epic conditions should be the order of the day.

SWELL TIMES: Put it this way, the swell tomorrow is 75% bigger than today. Go figure. Photo Windy

And then, overnight, the brunt of the swell will begin to push, and the swell direction will be almost straight SW by 8am tomorrow, and the ambient open ocean swell height looks to be around 18-20 feet in pumping westerly busters. The temperature will drop and there will be showers, with solid 6-8ft sets winding down the point at Supers, and potentially bigger sets to 10ft, with wide swingers aplenty. The really big sets will grow more frequent on the push as the deepening depth lubricates the swell's energy to enable it to wrap more sharply around Cape St Francis.

Initially, on the spring low, the wind is blasting a lot past the coast. With the tides moving into their full moon spring zenith, everything is aligned for an epic few days of surfing. With the field greatly reduced after the mid season cut, they might be able to do this thing in two full days of surfing, particularly with two hours of epic surf set for early Friday before a light onshore slowly crumbles it.

The finals could be called on in clean 4-6ft surf with a touch of landbreeze easing into early morning glass, and hopefully, the first puff of the onshore comes at the prizegiving.

WINDY.COM: A stiff SW buster blows tomorrow, but Supers handles it, and it's not the worst shtonker.