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THE SOUTHERN HEMI IS HEATING UP!.
New storm activity is rolling through the South Pacific and is setting up waves for many of the best SW swell spots in the Pacific.
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Using the LOLA GLOBAL WAVE HEIGHT ANIMATION you can quickly get a good feel of the intensity of the storm track. The image above is using a couple of filters: First it is zoomed in on the South Pacific to give us a higher resolution view of the developing storms. Secondly we have applied a greater-than 13-seconds filter to the wave heights. (Both of which are easy to do on the LOLA homepage). This filter eliminates the messy short-period storm swell and leaves us the hypnotically beautiful long-period swell that is so good a producing waves thousands and thousands of miles away….hmmm warm white sand beaches and line after stacked up line of long-period Southern Hemi swell….oh sorry drifted off for a moment. Ahem. So anyway, yeah you should check it out…this is just another great tool to help fuel our soggy and salty daydreams.

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WHAT IS LOLA?

LOLA is the world's only automated global surf forecasting tool. LOLA can forecast waves right down the street, or it can predict surf conditions at the top spots around the globe - breaks like Tavarua, Tahiti and Jeffrey's Bay.

LOLA uses the NOAA Wavewatch III engine (running on our own computers) with Surfline-modified data from various wind models (AVN, GFS, MRF). Then LOLA combines this information with empirical data we've programmed into her gained from over 30 years of surf and weather analysis here at Surfline.

LOLA also gathers real-time data from offshore buoys to measure wave pulses from storms around the world every hour. She taps into orbiting satellites to measure hurricane-force winds and tremendous wave heights in the heart of raging storms when huge ships are running for cover. She computes near-shore wave animations measuring detailed wave heights along the coast, taking into account how swells are distorted by offshore islands and the continental shelf.

When you add it all up, LOLA is the ultimate forecasting tool for surfers looking for timely, accurate and comprehensive information about waves.

Initially, we created LOLA as a proprietary tool for Surfline forecasters. But we decided to share the knowledge and give Surfline's Premium Members the chance to use LOLA themselves, to give them the best chance to score more good surf more often.

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