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STILL PLENTY OF ANTARCTIC JUICE!.
One good-sized Southern Hemi has come and gone for the U.S. West Coast and Central America but is there still a chance the summer could be a bust?
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The answer is looking like "no" from where we are sitting. Despite the current brief slowdown it looks like the South Pacific winter is cranking right along. Check out the image above. The LOLA Global Model is showing a solid string of significant storms forecast to form in the South Pacific storm track and push swell up into the Northern Hemi regions. The best part about this LOLA chart is that we are running a T >13-second (where T = swell period) filter on the data, which means this is a forecast for deepwater swell rather than just significant wave height. Why does this matter to me you crazy forecaster, you might ask yourself...Well basically this is showing swell that is actually leaving the storm area and has the ability to travel thousands of miles and will eventually make landfall...hopefully at some fast, hollow, right-handed point break that only the Surfline Forecasters know about. Just kidding. Uh yeah, forget that I said anything about that.

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