There appears to be a swell on the horizon and while Marvericks contest director Jeff Clark says “everything beyond 48 hours is hypothetical” this bump could mean a Mavericks contest January 16-17, 2009, according to a story in the San Jose Mercury News.
The pulse looming large on satellite imagery is the byproduct of a gale spawned off the coast of Japan late last week. The system is expected to be tracking southeast today toward the international date line and making a beeline for the coral reefs off Oahu and Maui. . . .If it stays on course, it will release its fury there Wednesday and Thursday. Then it will hurtle toward Northern California with the potential for clean 40-foot wave faces jutting from the shallow rocky shelf off Pillar Point on Friday and Saturday.
Keep your browsers tuned to Marvericks.
[Link: San Jose Mercury News]
