What? Another forecast?
Monday 26 August to Friday 30 August
By Spike, Monday @ 5pm
Summary
What an wickedly wild and woolly winter we have had. How cool when alliteration accidently asks for air.
The top swell size Chart 1 from Windy.com shows solid swell action all around the coast today (Monday) with a cold front sweeping past Skaapstad and shredding its way up the East Coast. Cape Town is a solid 20ft and its wild and crazy out there with honking NW, driving rain and general chaos. The surf is likely to be out of control in the S and E Cape as well, with solid surf all over the show. Durban is way smaller with S swell coming from a totally different source. There have been cooking waves on the piers and there should still be plenty action - at least 4ft+.
Wow, what a season its been for waves in the JBay area and other points, but ironically, too stormy and wild for the SW Cape big wave spots barring a select few days.
And then, as if you thought this was a hectic storm and swell, well hold onto your frikken hats because tomorrow Tuesday it goes nuclear (Chart 2) as a HUMUNGOUS storm, with a gigantic wind fetch area the size of SA (actually bigger) slams straight into us like a Mike Tyson gut punch to SA's solar plexus. The storm is down to 975mb as it passes, which might not seem that crazy when considering storms in the deep and the swells they produce, but this thing is so close, we're going to get some pretty wild stuff. NW gales, 40ft seas (Chart 3) and general carnage, including pouring rain and deluge squalls.
The other interesting aspect is that a ginormous High pressure system (you might think that winter has us firmly in its grip and its going to seem so with FRIGID temperatures coming up Wednesday and Thursday) but in the background, the earth has been slowly tilting back up towards the sun and summer.
It's the season of southerlies as the NW winds kink away due to a further southward trending south Atlantic High and the wind backing along the western edge of the storm shows a HUGE SSW to SW wind fetch that is going to fill up every crevice of our contorted geographically mangled coastline!
#Just saying
