Addition of Wind Animation
May 25, 2023
Topics: Site Improvements
Wind Animation is Live The Problem Wind arrows and barbs work, but they've always been a bit clunky to interpret at a glance. You see an arrow, you see a barb — but understanding how wind patterns flow across a…
New Feature - Heads Up Display
January 22, 2023
Topics: Site News
Over the past few months, we have been working on an exciting update to the map click circle functionality. Previously, the circle just showed the click location within a given radius. To make the surf data more…
New Feature - Dynamic Domain
August 15, 2022
Topics: Site News
With this update we’ve included the ability to pan between “domains” or areas of the map which contain related surf, swell, wind, and additional data. We think the Pinpointsurf map should be the…
Increased Height Resolution
July 18, 2022
Topics: Site News
The surf in Southeastern NC has been pretty small, which is typical for June and July. We don't get the large cold fronts or Nor'Easters that drive locally generated waves, and hurricane swells don't typically kick in…
Weather Data
June 28, 2022
Topics: Site News
It's been a while since I've posted, but there's lots of work going on behind the scenes. First off, I've added real-time weather data to the map. You'll notice some markers indicating both weather and buoy stations on…
Wind Data on the Dashboard
February 14, 2022
Topics: Site News
It's been a while since any major updates, but something that many people have pointed out is the need for wind feedback on the map dashboard. The data has always been shown on the map but I admit that it needed to be…
Hurricane Larry
September 7, 2021
Topics: Tropics, Forecast Discussion
Larry is large... Larry is a good example of a well behaved hurricane. It started just off the coast of Africa, and has tracked just north of due west for most of its journey. Rather than spin up quickly and burn out,…
Hurricane Henri Swell Analysis
September 3, 2021
Topics: Wave Modeling, Tropics, Buoy Data
Hurricane Henri, Friday Every time there is a major swell event, I try to look over the data to ensure things are lining up with reality. I surfed that Friday at a spot north of Wrightsville, and late that afternoon at…
Landscape Mode
August 23, 2021
Topics: Site News
Henri was a super fun swell. Friday afternoon was unexpectedly big in the Carolina Beach area, with some faces in the 8' range and sets arriving about every 5-6 minutes. Saturday was a little smaller than the model…
Model Updates
July 14, 2021
Topics: Site News, Wind, Wave Quality
I know I haven't posted an update lately, but that doesn't mean there hasn't been work going on. I'm pushing out a new surf quality model this evening, which is a little more empirical than the old one. While the old…
Tide Data
May 3, 2021
Topics: Site News
One of the big feedback items has been lack of tide data. While water depth changes due to wind and tide are factored into the model, there are still times at high tide where a small wave will refuse to break until it's…
New Site
February 20, 2021
Topics: Site News
Over the last few months, the front-end of the site has been almost completely rewritten. The code base was getting too big to manage in just regular Javascript, so now it has been migrated into a full fledged React…
Bathymetry Improvements
October 26, 2020
Topics: Wave Modeling
The bathymetry that I was previously using in the model, was very old and out of date. As I’ve posted before, I knew there were some problem areas such as the jetties at Masonboro, Wimble Shoals (Rodanthe), and…
Data Improvements
August 23, 2020
Topics: News, Improvements
Usability Improvements A couple issues were noted by folks, where accidental clicks (or screen touches on mobile) caused some things with the surf chart to go haywire. Before, any clicks out of the surf zone would…
Tropical Storm Isaias
August 4, 2020
Topics: Tropics, Forecast Discussion
Just an FYI, if I have internet or power issues the site won’t update since the modeling computer is here in Wilmington. The site itself is run from a cloud bucket, so it should be available but with old data.…
Quality Fix
July 20, 2020
Topics: Site News
It’s flat… No, the website isn’t broken. We’re in the time of the year when every day is pretty much 2ft windswell. Hopefully something will break this hot, high pressure spell soon. Surf…
Tropical Storm Arthur
May 10, 2020
Topics: Tropics, Forecast Discussion
Well, the water temp has just broken 70, and we have our first tropical storm of the season approaching the coast of NC. Official NHC forecasts have it coming close to, or over Cape Hatteras as it travels NE. These are…
Big Upgrades
May 4, 2020
Topics: Site News
5 Day Forecasts I’ve upgraded the modeling computer, and now have the capability to run a 5 day forecast. Three days was just not cutting it when you’re trying to plan your week. The additional capacity…
Lorenzo and IOS Bug Fixed
September 29, 2019
Topics: Site News
iOS (Mobile Safari) and the Disappearing Time Slider There was an annoying bug that was occurring on Apple devices when the layer drop down menu was selected on the map. Turns out the screen was auto-zooming, and was an…
Problem Areas
September 19, 2019
Topics: Wave Modeling, Bathymetry
Hurricane Humberto swell is here, but will fade this weekend. Hopefully you’ve found a spot to hide from the NE wind. I’ve been using this as an opportunity to do some tuning and verification on surf heights…
Updated Site Layout
September 8, 2019
Topics: Site News
New Posts Page This new section will allow me to share updates to the site, and perhaps some of the science behind the model itself. New Navigation Bar I trashed the old “hover” navigation bar for one that…