BLAKE THORNTON WINS THE O’NEILL COLD WATER CLASSIC SOUTH AFRICA
ROYDEN BRYSON SECOND IN EPIC KALK BAY CONDITIONSTHE STORM HITS AND THE SURFERS HEAD FOR COVER
LAY DAY IS CALLED ON DAY 4 AT THE O’NEILL CWC SOUTH AFRICA23 JUNE WEATHER UPDATE
The storm has hit.JORDY SMITH BLOWS INTO CAPE TOWN – ALONG WITH GALE FORCE WINDS, AND UP TO 40 FOOT SWELL
Surfing and storms heat upENDLESS BARRELS ON DAY TWO IN SOUTH AFRICA
Surfers put on a show during the calm before the stormBIGGEST SWELL OF THE YEAR SET TO HIT THE O'NEILL COLD WATER CLASSIC SOUTH AFRICA
Calm before the storm produces stunning conditions for day oneO’NEILL COLD WATER CLASSIC SOUTH AFRICA LOOKS SET TO LIVE UP TO ITS NAME
This is the wildest event in professional surfingCOLD WATER CLASSIC HITS THE WILDS OF SOUTH AFRICA
Cape Town's coast plays host to the third stop on the CWC Series
23 JUNE WEATHER UPDATE
The storm has hit..
CT CWC Surf Forecast 7
Global Forecasting System, Wavescape Ocean Watch and other Wave Watch III sources, update Tuesday 23 June @ 02h00 + 08h00
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Prognosis
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The storm has hit and heavy squalls come scudding in from the Atlantic. Sea already a churned up mess, worsening during the day in near-galeforce West winds going galeforce WSW – gusts to 40 knots. Nasty weather bites. The swell jacks all day from a windblown messy 3-5 feet on the Atlantic side to a heaving 15’+ windswell. By Wednesday the swell is 20-30 feet at 14 to 15 second intervals, and individuals set waves on deep opean reefs hit 35 feet. Unfortunately, it must burrow beneath the buckled mayhem of the overhead winds, strong West winds, and then the meat of the second front comes in, and its back to galeforce WNW. Powerful, heaving, and broken.
Tuesday 23
Red alert. Beep Beep. Pandomonium breaks loose as a savage roaring forty storm bliksems us from the West. Heaving 3-5’ storm seas builds to a chunky wild, wind driven 15’+ windswell – with first signs of grunt to 20 feet on outer reefs by nightfall. A lot of juice sprayed across a wide area. This is no Indo Sniper swell, but rather a blast of buckshot scattered over a wide area. Big rain. Heavy weather.
Best Options: not really
Wednesday 24
The sea is GIANT. A massive, ginormous storm swell in the 20-30 foot range comprises a complete mixed bag of energy, with small, medium and HUGE all mixed together, a deep BIG WAVE groundswell underlying it all, and Tafelberg is breaking at 25 feet (PLUS). There is SERIOUS energy in this swell, with an underlying 15 second interval. Winds are strong SW and now the wind upgrades as the second portion of the front bangs a NW gale thru in the afternoon.
Best options: Kalk Bay reef will be solid.
