Breaking: Florida Gets Spherical

In the Northern Atlantic, low-pressure systems — the storms most often responsible for creating waves — typically travel from west to east. 

Tropical cyclones tend to travel from east to west, at least in their early days.  

This directional shift seems to make people lose their fucking minds and break the golden rule of surf forecasting, which is that nothing guarantees an underperformance of conditions quite like hype. 

Last month, Hurricane Erin got the world roaring. She briefly threatened landfall, before deciding to slide north just off the American East coast and eventually hook east towards Europe. And there were some waves. Everywhere.

Some random went viral (classic Hurricane swell guy — probably hasn’t surfed in a year [since the last hurricane swell], had to paddle because he heard there was a hurricane swell, likely won’t surf again until he hears there’s another hurricane swell). Robbie Goodwin won the swell. And about a thousand miles south of him, Noah Schweizer, Evan Geiselman, Cam Richards, and Curren Caples got some fun waves around New Smyrna Beach, Florida. 

Evidence is served in ep 14 from Eratic Nerve, a fun little YT channel run by a talented East Coast crew. 

Good surfing. Fun waves. A three-and-a-half-minute departure from whatever horrific news item that has been consuming you of late. 

The edit ends in the traditional Floridian way, with someone catching a fish from a house.