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Wow. 34. First frost. What’s left of the tomatoes and eggplant seem to be ok. Love to see how deep into the season I can get stuff to produce. 

12 hours ago, LongBeachSurfFreak said:

Tonight’s high tide ended up being the highest of all in my neighborhood. The entire end of my block had at least some inundation. Right up there with the highest tides since sandy and close to the perfect storm. Amazing that we reached these level without ever having high winds. Goes to show what days of large East swells can do by blocking water from leaving the bays. Also noticed some major erosion. A high impact event for the coast.

Finally got a chance to get to Tobay this morning. Beach is beat up. Ocean took several feet of the new dune they put up after Sandy. Water was crashing under the beach house well after high tide. Waves were really clean though. 

2 hours ago, LongBeachSurfFreak said:

Amazingly Humberto caused more beach erosion and washovers then Dorian. This is due to swell periods being significantly higher (16 vs 12 seconds) which contain much more energy. Yesterday at Jones Beach I surfed some of the biggest waves since Bill. Easily some 12 foot sets. Today was smaller in the 8 foot range on the bigger sets. Most interesting to me was the refraction occurring off the Hudson Canyon yesterday which led to waves moving in from the west!!!!! 

And, please please rain!

Refraction off the Hudson canyon. You gotta explain. 

What a beautiful day on the beach. Swell from Humberto is dropping now, but great rides early today and honestly just beautiful to sit on the sand and watch it roll in for hours. 

This was that storm from Long Beach NY. 

Don’t know if anyone is awake on the immediate south shore, but look east. What a light show. Tiny cell blowing up out over the ocean. Marine warning says it’s 50 Miles south of Nantucket. Pretty cool and only something you see this time of year. 

1 hour ago, LongBeachSurfFreak said:

I first noticed it way back in July 2003. We had a solid week of powerful surging waves that seemingly came out of nowhere. Minor beach wash overs and swell periods of 20-17 seconds, something completely unheard of on the east coast. I looked around the North Atlantic and there was no tropical activity or storms at all. I figured it had to have come from a huge storm the week before that was unusually far north in the Southern Hemisphere. So I sent a question to Sean Collins the founder of Surfline and the king of surf forecasting. He sent me back a response on their “who knows” detailing the storm that caused the swell and how it’s entirely possible given the right circumstances. They have been talking about this current swell on their premium subscription forecasts for over a week now!!!

We have had several smaller events since 03 but this is the only other that stacks up.

Check out the swell periods on the NY Harbor Buoy. There are our typical local wind waves with the periods below 10 seconds and then the southern hemi swells with the periods over 13 seconds. 

https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=44065

 

Pretty cool. Up to 16 seconds at times. I look at the buoys often but would have just glossed right over that this week. 

1 hour ago, LongBeachSurfFreak said:

South facing shores will have the biggest swells and impacts, but they will be noticeable along the whole east coast. The swell started arriving Saturday and should last through the week with lowering swell periods and thus impacts. It’s those longest period swells that have the most energy. It’s pretty amazing stuff and very rare. 

So now you’ve got me curious. Long period swells from the Southern Hemisphere? Where did you read that, I’ve never heard that before. 

We’ll that was a show.  And now it’s all fire engine sirens in the distance. Classic. 

94/79/112 as the sun came back out. 

Ok. Caught up. 93/80/113. That’s about as high as ive ever seen. 

87/77/100. Cool spot 

83/79/95 here at 8:30 to get things started. 

I think its been mentioned but the extreme dew points make it a lot harder for AC equipment to cool a home and therefore can lead to more power usage. 100/60 will take less energy to cool than 100/80. 

90/79/107. I might not believe me own readings if others in the area weren't similar 

88/79/103  back home. 

1 hour ago, LongBeachSurfFreak said:

This was more in comparison to during the week when winds were light onshore and water temps were In the mid 70s. They were mid 60s yesterday at Jones Beach. I doubt there was much variability between jones and cedar. You must just like chilly water!

The water was a bit cool right on shore (Tobay). It certainly didn't feel like 75, which is what both Buoys were reading.

I know others have mentioned the high number of lightning bugs around. I feel like this is the most I ever remember seeing. Maybe not surprising after having seen them deep into October last year.  I also feel like I have a couple of giant dragon fly’s from the Permian era flying around my back yard. 

17 minutes ago, psv88 said:

Wow. At Cedar Beach now, east of Jones Beach, and it’s a scorcher. Hit 92 at home and at ISP.

so ISP and FOK have higher temps than the city terminals so far this summer 

Couple miles west of you at Tobay. Mmmmm Summer. 

19 hours ago, LongBeachSurfFreak said:

Coastal water temps are rocketing with the light winds and sun the last few days. When the wind stays below 20 knots it really allows the top 3 feet of water warm up. 

Local buoys are in the low 70s this morning. Satellite basically backing that up as well. It’s summer. Enjoy. 

Up in Lloyd harbor this afternoon at a relatives. Lost power as that cell hit. Almost immediately. We were right on the edge of the worst too. 

2 hours ago, NycStormChaser said:

This boat washed up at field 6 Jones Beach a few days ago. I went there last night to photograph it. I was surprised how dark it was that close to the light pollution.

I saw this boat last weekend. The owner of this thing should have to bear the full cost of the removal. The "up to" $15k probably won't cover the cost to the state to have this removed. This was intentional and sets a bad precedent for people that don't know what do with their useless old boats. You can't just leave this thing at the curb and hope the garbage men will take it away. 

Great picture though lol

https://www.newsday.com/long-island/nassau/boat-beached-jones-beach-abandoned-1.32657038

23 hours ago, uofmiami said:

I’ll start keeping an eye out for them nightly now. My 3 year son and I looked last night but didn’t see any yet in Syosset, so I told him I’d ask on here. Hopefully they appear this week in my own backyard.

I actually meant to post this but I saw the first one over a week ago. Surprised because it was so cool and rainy.  Now I have multiple a night in my yard. I guess I am in a good spot for them. 

18 minutes ago, forkyfork said:

time for the mass summer exodus now that we've flipped to above normal

Time for me to come back to the forum now that rain and gloom are done with