Tuesday 8/24: Surf’s Up… now Go to School.

Tuesday 8pm: I would like to apologize to any students I cheesed off with my comments about them missing waves on the first day back to school. I just found the irony amazing and couldn't back away from it. As it is, check out the shots you did not miss much(more shots below). Thanks to Ryppio for grabbing the cam. The surf today could be described in 2 words: Low Qual. TD 5 was better. So you didn't miss much and I hope you scored some good waves after classes. The ahh errr... seasoned gulf coaster crew dropped the kids off for their first day of Kindergarten, took the wife for breky to celebrate and then hit the waves with a light crowd for a few hours. It was fun... I guess... Surfing is always fun even when the waves are not good. I made the mistake of thinking the aura demographic was beyond the school years... My bad. Site blowing up and gracias to everybody who checks in. Should be some leftovers mañana. Paz y amor a todo el mundo...
Lots of good comments way below.
7am: We got waves. Buoys are picking up and there some choppy waves from the SW at the beach now. Expect building surf today with leftovers for Wednesday. Watch out for flooded streets. 3.5 inches of rain have fallen in St Pete during the last 36hrs. have fun. If you get back from the beach you can post a report in the comments. I should have an update later in the form of a tweet at the bottom of this page.
Tuesday: waist high and choppy, a chest high choppy peak possible at best spots this afternoon. Wednesday: Knee to occ waist high choppy leftovers.
Hurricane Danielle Surf Forecast for Puerto Rico: Danielle is going to blow up the ATL. Not only will she bring her own swell but the gradient squeeze between her and the high will light up 1000's of miles of open ocean and send a solid NE swell to the Bahamas, Florida, the Caribbean and PR. PR is pretty flat right now. The first bit of powerful ENE swell will hit Friday am. Looks chest to head high in Isabela and waist to chest down in Rincón. Saturday more swell fills in. Chest to head high in Rincón but head high plus on the the N Coast all this meeting light E trades. Sunday the swell peaks, double overhead at Middles and head high to 2' overhead around the corner in Rincón. The swell stays solid on Monday, still head high plus with SE trades and then finally dropping on Tuesday, waist to chest high with SE winds. Looks like a really fun swell pa' la isla entera.