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INDIAN OCEAN STORMS CRANK OUT SWELL .
A series of strong, well-developed, storms have been steamrolling through the Southern Indian Ocean lining up a long train of swell for Australia and Indo.
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You can see on this LOLA Global Wave Model image that there is plenty of storm activity cranking through the Southern Ocean storm track. This image is actually filtered to show deepwater swell energy that is greater than 16-seconds in swell-period. This allows us as forecasters (and you guys at home) to track the "pure" deepwater swell that would be heading to say G-land and filter out the mixed up jumble of short-period energy that would decay away before reaching the beach.

If you take a close look at the animation you can see that even with the short-period swell filtered out that there is still nearly 10-12' of deepwater swell heading to Indo. Anyone care for double-triple overhead+ square barrels?

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