Understand The Surf Forecast For Best Experience While Surfing

 

The secret of surfing is that when you surf in the air above water, it gives you positive vibes that will make you happy. Surfing offers you a full body workout, from paddling out from the shores to the waves and riding the waves that needs strength, balance, agility and stamina. Only things you need is, just a surf board and the ocean.

To have fun and enjoy the nature while surfing, visit Noosa that is famous around the world for surfing. Apart from surfing you will also enjoy boutique shops, fine restaurants, spas, luxury accommodation and sand bottom point breaks. In Noosa, you can find a range of waves that suits all abilities.

In Noosa you can enjoy hundreds of meters long rides and there are five world-class point breaks. Many surfing schools offer different packages that provide you knowledge on surfing lessons. Surf lessons Noosa with Epic Ocean Adventures will provide you surfing experience at Double Island Point where there are longest and safest waves.

You will also gain a basic knowledge on how to identify waves and currents in your surfing lessons. Big waves can be unpredictable and crowded, smaller point waves are more reliable and less competitive.

As a surfer you need to understand the basics of how to read a surf forecast. Surf forecasting is a method of predicting local surf conditions in advance.  It helps the surfers to understand what the surfing conditions can be expected at the surf spot, and then decide when and where to surf.

With surfing conditions in constant change from one day to the next surf forecasting proves helpful to the surfers, who are planning to surf and allow them to manage their time competently.

Surf forecasting is a science, but you need not to be a scientist for that. All you want is to know the size and period of the waves, the swell arrival times, wind behaviour, and the tide times. Here are the basic variables that will help you read the forecast report.

Wave Periods

Wave periods of 10 to 20 seconds will bring better waves for surfing while wave periods of less than 10 seconds will provide poor waves for surfing.

Wave Heights

Wave heights are average heights of wave that a surfer can expect to see at the beach. Usually these are measured in feet.

Tidal Movement

There will be two high tides and two low tides every 24 hours. Learn how these tides will work affect the shape of waves to decide when and where to surf.

Swell Direction

Swells are waves that are generated by wind far out in the ocean. Swell direction is often expressed in degrees.

Wind Speed and Direction

Wind is responsible for the creation of waves and is the ultimate reason for existence of surfing, but it can also destroy a day of surfing. Wind direction is shown by arrow icon and it represents the direction the wind has originated from.

The main three areas to concentrate are wave height, wind direction & strength and tidal movement. These three will provide you most valuable and important snippets of information to decide the best ocean and weather conditions for surfing.