Friday the 13th Nor'easter - Leftovers

*RIP to the surfer who died in Rockaway Beach in this swell*

On Friday, November 13th, 2009, New York was rocked by a nor'easter that formed out of the remnants of Hurricane Ida. The 4th nor'easter of the 2009-2010 season brought rain, wind, and huge waves to the New York area. Friday the buoys were reading 10-12 feet, and Saturday 15+. The combination of driving NE gales, and the ESE long period groundswell, made surfing nearly impossible throughout the region, with surfline.com warning inexperienced surfers to stay out of the water.

On Sunday, November 15th, the rain stopped, and gave way to light offshore northeast winds, and a solid 6-8 foot headhigh swell. Unfortunately, the currents were still too strong to paddle in along the Central Long Island coast, and many surfers headed west, where the jetties broke up the current. The result, miles of unridden, Hossegor-like barrels, A-framing, and dumping on shallow sandbars.

Song is Coyote by Mad Caddies

11/19/09 - Featured on Transworld Surf Magazine's website:
http://surf.transworld.net/news/remnants-of-hurricane-ida-slam-northeast/

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[Tomcj20067]

wheres all da surfers??

[surfandsk8]

at other spots. this one was ripping faster then the colorado river on high water. you needed a ski to get out there.

[deadsextonslive]

leftovers? i dunno about fri, but sun was great. clean and big. pretty sure it was the best day of the bunch....maybe sat. leftovers?

[surfandsk8]

This is sunday..the date in the video says the 15th.  Also, read the description.

[surfandsk8]

also, sunday was leftovers because the peak of the swell was saturday, Sunday into tuesday the swell slowly diminished.

[alarsen54321]

ok why the hell is noone out there.. i bet this is the best it ever gets..

[surfandsk8]

@mikeb2056 The same way wind creates waves. The strong winds helped push the surface water back out to sea. The currents were so strong because the way the sandbars are set up, all the water being pushed in by the long period swell was trapped behind the sandbars, and when it escapes it rushes out, and the wind accelerates it slightly. Tides effect it too, the currents get even stronger on outgoing tides.

[deadsextonslive]

oh ya. well i was drunk when i wrote that im pretty sure. sun was offshore and clean as hell though from what i remember. how was thurs and fri anyways? heard it was insane, though i also heard that the winds were choppin it up.

[surfandsk8]

it was completely offshore early, but at sunset (when this video was taken) the winds went a little more NE. Today was offshore all day apparently.

[08WSchampions]

man it didnt clean up like nj, too bad it would of been a lot better