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Seasoned North Sea surfers, who learned surf forecasting in the early days of the internet, knew what this forecast for the North Atlantic meant for their pond. There was more than necessary energy in that west swell to bend it about 90 degrees at the northern tip of Scotland end send it with sufficient energy to the north-western shores of Denmark. All that was needed for a really good surf there was favourable local winds.
The swell forecast stayed stable until day X and the local wind forecasts looked promising too. It was time to declare all job and family obligations secondary and head for northern Denmark. Tuesday morning, I awoke to some of the ugliest weather you get up hare. It was raining cats and dogs, air temperatures were around 5 Celsius and the sky was a dark grey. But the wind blew side offshore.
To my big relieve that nasty weather stopped in the late morning and – even more important – the first arrivals of the expected groundswell were visible. Typically for the very high swell periods – according to the forecast it was about 20 seconds - at the forefront of such a swell there were long lulls, but every 15 to 20 minutes a set arrived. Breaking waves were still small, but triggered expectations.
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