Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of the Treasure Beaches Report.
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| ECMWF Model as Shown on Windy.com for Monday. |
The big news and important thing for me today is the weather and Treasure Coast beach metal detecting conditions. It looks like the beach metal detecting conditions will improve some in the next couple of days. It has been quite a while since we had some good surf to move sand to give us a better shot at better beach metal detecting conditions. You should get your metal detectors charged up and your equipment in good shape. By the look of things this morning, you might want your rain gear too. And watch out for lightning.
The above clip shows the position of what is now tropical depression nine and Humberto on Monday according to the ECMWF model. That will be when Nine is closest to us. The thing I wanted to see is the wind.
As you can see by inspecting the clip, when the center is just off shore, we'll be getting some north winds. The angle of the winds was what I was looking for there, and it seems pretty good. As the system moves north the angles will change, first being more easterly and then changing to what you see in this clip. Humberto, farther out, looks like it will also be adding to the surf coming our way.
Here is what the National Weather Service (Melborne) is sayding.
Thanks to DJ for that.
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| Showing the South Beach Zoon from the Fort Pierce South Jetty Beach Cam. |
As of just before 8 AM Saturday, this is what the Fort Pierce South Jetty Beach looks lie.. It is dark and rainy. The surf is slightly higher. You can see that the beach might have steepened some, but no cuts there yet due to the easterly angle of the surf.
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| Sebastian Beach Cam Saturday Morning. |
Checking the Sebastian Beach Cam, we see it is windy. The surf is rough but not real big yet, and still coming in from the east.
The low tides now are close to sunrise and sunset. The high tides aren't quite as high as they were a week or two ago.
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| Surf Chart for the Fort Pierce Jetty Area from SurfGuru.com. |
We haven't seen a chart this encouraging for quite a while. Check surf angle for later Monday. Nice northerly surf that doesn't straighten out much until a few days later.
And check out the surf size on Thursday and Friday. That is a good high surf, which could be hitting some dunes. That kind of surf has produced some nice old finds.
To sum it up, it looks like we might be in for some good beach hunting for the next week or so.
Get ready,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net