Last word on Francine: GM, in the wake of Francine the GOMEX is left pretty calm going fwd. An area of low pressure could form next week offshore Honduras and that will be the next area to watch. I hope you had a great week. What an awesome swell. It was so cool to be down here and look at the cams all day for days and see good surf and favorable winds. How was the forecast? LMK in the comments… Wind ended up being pretty much a non factor, that was cool! Looked like Nokomis and Manatee just sucked in the swell and maximized it’s potential. St Pete looked smaller but perfect clean bowls. So stoked for you guys. All the pics are below my Caribbean report. We’ll leave it up until Monday and file it away. Go Bucs!! Thanks to my sponsors for helping me to help you score! The Compound, Scott Orsini came thru for me big time again! Broqsurf.com, Whitneys on LBK and Diaco Law, thanks everybody for the donations! If you still want to donate there is a paypal button on the right and my venmo is Micah-Weaver-8, super appreciated!!
Thursday Francine WFL Surf Photos:

St Petersburg Hurricane Francine Surf Photos

Wednesday Surf in St Pete!

Thursday 9/12 6am Francine Surf Day: Good morning, checking all the c-man sites and PORTS data, winds are light offshore this am. The 2 buoys that are working are 36 and 97 and they both show 2ft at 11 seconds west swell. The models show that swell building slightly to 3ft later today with some longer period swell mixed in esp this morning(13seconds). In the dark, on the cams, it looks… small, doh! Not that much bigger than yesterday. Best spots will pulse today at some point. Winds are forecast to be light today. They will probably seabreeze at some point. Tide looks high this am but will drag out till mid afternoon.

Wed 8am WFL Notes: I found a buoy offshore Texas below Francine’s big butt with 15ft seas from the west. It takes like 48hrs for waves to get from there to WFL so Friday am should have a small leftover too. 97 in pinging also closer to home… Your window seems to be late today(small) thru Friday am for WSW swell from Francine. The latest wind models for tomorrow basically show light winds. Francine is tight and compact all the way by LA so my best guess Thursday 7am wind call in ESE at 5. It may go south during the day on Thursday, the wind that is. Looks like a fun swell, what’s your plan? I’d head to the best ground swell spots late today and early tomorrow and if it’s too crowded I’d surf the corners or the streets where the sand is piled up best. I hope you score. I would have come back for this one but medical appointments are on Friday so enjoy!!! Updated details way below Mo’s awesome video. Please vote for Mo!!

Tuesday 8am Odds and Ends: How can WFL get waves from a storm so far away? Well, for once it looks like things are lining up well within the storm acc the GFS(which has been spot on IMO, on the the last couple storms, Debbie and Beryl). The butt end of Francine is torquing with very strong west winds and seas 10ft and up from the west and a favorable track with Francine headed NE towards New Orleans eventually it’s going to throw the highest seas at WFL so for once WFL is looking at solid swell. The day is Thursday, no secret but there may be fun waves late tomorrow and Friday am also. Local winds– that will be the next big factor for surf quality and both models call for light winds on Wednesday and pretty light on Thursday, maybe due south at 10. Both mornings could have a land breeze. Low tide is the middle of the afternoon, not a huge tide this time. Crowds- yes it’s going to be crowded at the main spots. How often does WFL get solid swell? What to do? Got a back pocket spot? A shallow sand bar that picks up groundswell? Or the corners of the main spots. If the wind goes south (very possible) you may need a jetty. I hope you score, don’t sleep in Thursday. More tomorrow… ETA on the WSW swell is tomorrow afternoon. Peak of the swell is Thursday PM when the models show 3ft at 11 on the beach, that should be pretty fun. 42036 should hit 6ft no problem… No 98, we didnt have 98 when I was a grom so back to blind. I’ve been triangulating between 36, 99 and 97 to keep an eye on the swell… Details below look to be on track…

Monday 10:25am aurasurf.com report on WFL wave chances, wax em’ up…. PTC 6 to be Francine is firing up in the western gulf already and the BOC buoy has west winds on it so a good wrap to get better into tomorrow and wave models are quite stoked on the late week surf chances. As you know Francine will track towards LA and the winds within the storm are forecast to be favorable to send a swell to WFL. Best ground swell spots will be much bigger than normal beach. Winds are forecast to be offshore but with a southerly component in it. So cautiously optimistic with the surf chances, no hype but waves are on the way. Worth a drive? Possibly when the swell really fills in by Thursday but by then winds are SE and SSE forecast so jetties may be the call. With the storm way offshore, we may see a landbreeze and some small clean swell. Rain chances are high too so surf where the water is clean and there will be a chance for glass offs behind the local rain storms. Details updating for the week below Mo’s epic video(thanks for putting me in there Mo!!). Best south facer has a perfect 1ft south line to log this am in the 1ft range…

Details by Diaco updated 9/9 for best ground swell spots, normal beach will stay smaller.
Monday 9/9 Perfect 1ft wave at best south facer…
Tuesday 9/10 1ft southy.
Wednesday 9/11 1ft at 9secs WSW/SW inconsistent knee to thigh high swell, looks a little bigger late day, E to ESE flow.
Thursday 9/12 2-3ft west swell(waist to chest) with ESE winds early becoming SSE and SE winds(TARGET).
Friday 9/13 1-2, 3ft decaying West swell, stomach high early then getting smaller, calm winds becoming light ESE…
Saturday 9/14 1ft leftover swell.
Sunday 9/15 calm.