Hurricane Joaquin Strengthens – More surf on the way!

Hurricane Joaquin could strengthen to a category 3 right in our prime swell window over the weekend! But that’s not all – we have a coldfront pulling off the states and another tropical blob trying to form almost due north of PR. Basically we’re looking at multiple swells from multiple angles with south winds for the next 5 days and possibly beyond that. All of the north facing beaches in Puerto Rico should be on fire! The north side of the island should be barrel fest. We’ll start off with some of Joaquin’s NW swell tomorrow in the head high plus range that should last until the Coldfront pulls off and sends a NE swell from way out in the Atlantic for early next week.

Stay hydrated! The heat is going to be intense!

The temperatures are extremely hot right now in PR. Whenever the winds are dead or from the south we stay hot, humid, and stagnant. Drink plenty of water and don’t die of dehydration. Seriously, it’s going to be hot (it already has been).

Something to watch for, but don’t get your hopes up yet.

It’s hot and we’re stuck in a hot high pressure bubble that’s pushing the waves away from us. When the weather does this it can drive a man (or woman) crazy! We do have a low pressure system off the coast of the Eastern United States in a prime wave making spot but don’t get too attached to the hope of swell only to get your heart broken. Most of the models right now just show everything playing out enough to get some NE swell pointed at Puerto Rico by next week. Even if this thing does develop it’s moving away from us so we would need some serious wind field development on the west side of the system. The current forecast keeps Rincon small and mushy, but the north side of the island should be head high and have light winds in the morning. This is kind of the ideal setup and conditions for up there – light winds and a steady flow of NE swell. 90% of the time I don’t make the drive up there because the wind will turn it to a washing machine by the time I would get there. The window for glassy conditions should have a couple more hours on it for the coming week.