Seasons & Weather
A Coastal Forecast Is Three Different Forecasts Stacked Together
The land forecast, the inshore waters forecast and the tide are separate products with separate assumptions, and the coast is where…
Seasons & Weather
Wind, swell, shoulder seasons and when a coast is at its best.
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Seasons & Weather
Autumn Storms Arrive on a Sea That Is Still Holding Summer
The ocean reaches its warmest long after the air does, so the first serious depressions of the season cross water that is still…
Seasons & Weather
Watching a Storm From a Coast Is a Season of Its Own
Winter turns some coastlines into their most impressive version, and the place people most want to stand is precisely the place the…
Seasons & Weather
Rain on a Coast Arrives Sideways and Usually Moves On
Coastal rainfall behaves differently from inland rainfall: showers off the sea, a rain shadow a few miles wide and wind that drives…
Seasons & Weather
Some Years the Sea Simply Behaves Differently
Averages describe a coast in general and no particular season, because ocean conditions swing between years in ways that reshape…
Seasons & Weather
Weed, Foam and the Weeks When a Beach Smells
Stranded seaweed, sea foam and algal blooms are all seasonal, largely natural and occasionally consequential, and none of them…
Seasons & Weather
Gale, Gust and Force: The Words in a Marine Forecast Have Definitions
A marine forecast is a technical document in disguise, and most of its vocabulary refers to defined ranges rather than to…
Seasons & Weather
Daylight, Not Temperature, Sets the Shape of a Coastal Day
How long the sun is up, and how slowly it sets, decides when a coast is worth being outside on far more reliably than the forecast…
Seasons & Weather
Why a Coast Feels Colder Than the Thermometer Says
Wind, damp air, evaporation and a wet skin of salt combine so that the same reading feels several degrees lower beside the water…