The Mission: Surf "East Coast of Florida"

After waiting for over a month for the right tropical system to come along and move up the east coast of the United States, the storm has finally come to us. One of the strongest cold fronts of the season has pushed south into central Florida, bringing with it gusty winds to gale force. A large coast low pressure system is forecast to develop over the Bahamas on Sunday while Canadian high pressure continues to create a strong pressure gradient offshore the east coast. What this means is 1500 miles of 25 knot NE winds pointed directly towards the east coast of Florida. This long fetch of wind will create 10-12 foot swell peaking Monday and into Tuesday with strong NE winds up and down the east coast. The Mission team will be filming on location at Matanzas Inlet south of St. Augustine on Sunday. Then Sunday night the team drives south to Ft. Pierce in hopes of catching cleaner conditions for the surfers.

At this point it looks like NE winds will create choppy conditions along the east coast of Florida, so the Mission Team will be in search of a south jetty setup to block the wind. The south side of Ft. Pierce inlet has a good left that only breaks on large swells, and is sheltered from NE winds. Hopefully conditions will be right for the surfers to show their skills! The wind will finally diminish Tuesday night out of the SE, and with continuing swell the conditions could be cleaner for Wednesday and Thursday. We will update this forecast tomorrow and the situation develops.