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Ahhh...Europe In the Fall.
LOLA is tracking a strengthening storm system in the North Atlantic that is promising to set up some decent, well overhead, surf for Portugal, Spain, and France.
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Watching the LOLA animation you can see that the most intense section of the storm will hit Ireland and the British Isles but set up some good fetch for Mainland Europe in the process. If you follow the red line in the LOLA 5-day Forecast you can see a big jump in WNW swell (coming in from 285- to about 300-degrees on the compass) arrive on Saturday and hold solid into the early part of next week. Another thing that you can see is that as the forecast animation (on the left) gets to the 120 hour forecast graphic another large storm is starting to loom on the horizon. With one swell on tap and another swell maker hanging in the wings it looks like it is going to be another good Fall season for the beaches of Europe.

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