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This page is set up so that the users can give a weather, surf or fishing report for in and around Folly Beach, South Carolina. Please try to give the most accurate report possible. Include you name, location and time of report with your comment. I am not sure how popular this will be, but we sure can give it a try! ALL INFORMATION PROVIDED ON THE COMMENT SUBMIT TAB WILL BE KEPT HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL.
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Show/Hide comments| 930AM EDT - The Washout, SHOULDER-HEAD high with much larger peaks and CHOPPY. It is going to get bigger, but choppier! | |
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630PM - Looking really fun! If you are having trouble seeing the webcam. Update your Java: http://www.java.com/en/ |
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Jason
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| If I cant view the web cam what do I need to download to be able to view it. | |
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CRV
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| Waves at the Pier for Aug. 25, 2008 @ 8:00AM - 1ft and glassy. Low tide @ 9:11AM. Waves should improve slightly to 2-3ft with the afternoon tide push. Conditions should stay fairly clean all day. | |
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afd
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| if today is like last night, it is solid shoulder with drifty conditions. washing machine like, yes, but fun if you havn't seen sizable waves for a minute. paddle-outs are a workout and you will be exhausted if you try to fight the current. drops on low tide last night were fun and seemed to close out after that 80% of the time. rainy and windy today again. it would be worth it for me but there will be no clean waves. | |
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| 900AM EDT, The Wahsout - BIG MUSHY SWELL AND CHOP IN THE SHOULDER-HEAD RANGE... LOOKS LIKE A WASHING MACHINE... KEEP A EYE ON THE EASTERLIES!!! | |
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| 1000AM EDT, The Washout - WAIST-STOMACH with SEMI-CHOPPY conditions... YIKES! The swell forecast is looking good... | |
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Admin
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Hey! Thanks for the update! I will be posting a report and forecast in the morning. IOP reports are always welcome here!  |
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altoforrester
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| I know this is for folly but I had not seen an update in a while and iop is waist to chest and glassy tonight, fingers crossed it might last for the morning high tide. | |
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| 930AM EDT, The Washout - WAIST to CHEST with a rare larger peak and GLASSY, looks to drop off today... | |
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| 645PM EDT, The Washout - WAIST-STOMACH high with CHEST-SHOULDER peaks and SEMI-GLASSY conditions. FROPA earlier... nice and glassy... | |
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| 900AM EDT, The Washout - ANKLE-KNEE high with SEMI-GLASSY conditions. Waves should build some on the incoming tide....THIGH? | |
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| 845AM EDT, The Washout - KNEE-THIGH with WAIST sets and GLASSY conditions... Looking pretty fun. The waves do not look to last into the weekend, but we should see some ridable surf. Hope that the surface winds remains light today into tomorrow keeping the nice windswell better organized... | |
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altoforrester
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| woke up early and checked iop and while it looked waist and glassy in the am, it was breaking directly on the shore with no real lines... anything for the sc goveners cup expected or should we plan on bringing the cooler to the beach this weekend? | |
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| 945AM EDT - The Washout, ANKLE-THIGH high with larger peaks and SEMI-GLASSY. WNW winds helping the wave form. Looks best on a longboard. | |
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| 1200PM EDT, The Washout - KNEE high with THIGH+ high peaks and CHOPPY. | |
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| 900AM EDT, The Washout - More SW chop in the KNEE-THIGH+ range. Should build on the incoming tide in the THIGH=WAIST range with CHOPPY conditions... | |
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900AM EDT, The Washout - KNEE-THIGH high with WAIST high peaks and SEMI-GLASSY/CHOPPY conditions. Looks to chop up a good bit in the afternoon... Think I should clear some of these comments? Yeah... I think so... |
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| Just got a tingle watching what's happening off the Afrian coast! | |
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915AM EDT, The Washout - ANKLE-KNEE with THIGH sets and CHOPPY. Yeah, It has been a slow summer...  |
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altoforrester
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| When will the flatness end? I know not to expect much out of this time of year but give me a freaking break!!! It seems that every year has gotten a little worse but this summer seems to be taking the cake! | |
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| 1230PM EDT, The Washout - ANKLE-KNEE SLOP/CHOP with a larger THIGH peak on occasions.... | |
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1100AM EDT, The Washout - KNEE-THIGH high with WAIST high sets and SEMI-GLASSY conditions. Looking fun on a longboard. PS - Historically, August is when the hurricane season really starts to pick up! |
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Birdman
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| i saw in the atlantic that by this weekend africa is pushing another little system off its coast. As far as i could read it it was on a westerly track. For all you weekend warrior surfers out there looking to make a trip somewhere, best bt is outerbanks and northward, although it doesn't look to be that good. Looks like another weekend of crowded folly | |
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Birdman
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| we need legit waves...unfortunately none in forcast for a while...pray for hurricanes | |
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| 1015AM - The Washout, KNEE-THIGH high with THIGH-WAIST sets and CHOPPY/MUSHY conditions. | |
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| 1030AM EDT - The Washout, THIGH-WAIST high with SEMI-GLASSY/SEMI-CHOPPY conditions. A larger plus set sneaking in... | |
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| 700AM EDT - The Washout, KNEE-THIGH high with WAIST-STOMACH sets and CHOPPY/DISORGANIZED conditions. | |
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730AM EDT, The Washout - ANKLE-KNEE high groundswell with THIGH sets moving in and SEMI-GLASSY conditions. Swell tapering off... |
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| 1030AM EDT, The Washout - Still some solid southerly windswell showing in the THIGH-WAIST range. Should build this afternoon on the incoming with choppy conditions. Will Bertha swell show tomorrow? | |
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1000AM EDT, The Washout - KNEE-THIGH high with WAIST high sets under SEMI-CHOPPY conditions. SE SWELL AND CHOP. Bertha Swell is moving our direction. Start looking east on Thursday.  |
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| 700AM EDT, The Washout - KNEE-THIGH high with WAIST peaks and SEMI-CHOPPY/CHOPPY conditions. | |
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| 1145AM EDT, The Washout - KNEE-THIGH high with SEMI-GLASSY conditions. | |
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| 1000AM EDT, The Washout - ANKLE-KNEE high with an occasional THIGH SET and SEMI-GLASSY conditions. | |
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Angry Surfer
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| The NE side of the pier has been fun the last few days. Surfed there after six pm. over this past weekend...got some longer lines that connected. Yesterday afternoon around 4:45 a local surfer got arrested by the idiot FB Public Safety officers for surfing at the wrong time of day. It was after a severe storm had passed. There was no lifeguards, no fishermen on the pier and not a soul on the beach or in the water. What is up with cops??? Picking on a kid having fun, not hurting anyone while there were at least six illegal aliens hanging out under the pier. | |
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Johnny Come Lately
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Choppy, but there are some chest high waves in the sets this morning. Workable sections, but still kind of mushy. If you get lucky you can get a really good line now and then. |
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| 1215PM, The Washout - WAIST-STOMACH with CHEST PEAKS and SEMI-CHOPPY conditions. Somewhat inconsistent, but great lines in the sets. | |
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| 900AM EDT, The Washout - ANKLE-KNEE high with THIGH sets and SEMI-CHOPPY conditions. Consistent waves later in the week? | |
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900AM EDT, The Washout - THIGH-WAIST high with occasional STOMACH high set and CHOPPY conditions. Thanks south wind! |
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900AM EDT, The Washout - ANKLE-KNEE high with a THIGH high set and SEMI-CHOPPY |
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| 800AM EDT, The Washout - ANKLE-KNEE high with THIGH high sets and SEMI-CHOPPY | |
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v-hater
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Oh, by virtue of grad school I'm in columbia. I know what it's like to have to plan your days paddling out anymore. I just felt the frustration in your post and figured it was from dealing with city life. Here's hope for something rideable this upcoming weekend. Good news is that reds are back deep in the creeks right now... top water wtih a gulp bait. |
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Admin
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| It is all good. I think we all are kind of snappy with the lack of surf. I am been bored out of my mind with the weather and waves the last few weeks. Hopefully, that will all change soon. | |
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V
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| Your right, sorry. Had a bad morning. Another flat day. Hope for tomorrow though. Thanks! | |
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Admin
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Let us all read the top paragraph. Ok, what does it say about the purpose of this page? If it starts to be used otherwise, I might have to wield the power of the ADMIN and moderate the posts more. If you want to complain or state your opinion on a variety of subjects, please find the appropriate forum or posting board. This is not the place. |
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V
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| Here we go with that locals only crap. The thing is, some of us have to make an effort on our days off to enjoy your beach. It's kind of nice to be able to check the conditions before we make that long gas consuming drive to your back yard. Thank god for the NOAA buoys, web cams, and surf shop reports. My only issue is that if you're going to offer a much needed service, don't tease us. Maybe one day I'll be able to track sand through my kitchen too. | |
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v-hater
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| You know V, you should probably whine about the page since you pay for it and all. Admin's providing a service supplying us with reports of just how crappy summer waves are at Folly. Be appreciative, jeez. You live in North Chuck or something? | |
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Sure... The Surf Forecast page will now be named the Surf History page... 845AM EDT, The Washout - ANKLE-KNEE high with a rare THIGH high set and SEMI-CHOPPY conditions. |
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V
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| I suggest that we rename the "surf forecast" page surf history since it's usually a couple days old before it updated. | |
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Not looking good Bob, not looking good at all.... But hey! At least the high pressure finally decided to break down and move east. Looks like another low will be developing across the Southeast this weekend. That will be our best shot. I will update the site in the morning. |
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| 1200PM EDT, The Washout - ANKLE-KNEE high and SEMI-CHOPPY. | |
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| 900AM EDT, The Washout - weak KNEE-THIGH high medium/long period windswell/groundswell and GLASSY conditions. A rare WAIST has been seen sneaking in... Tide is sucking out... | |
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| 1000AM EDT, The Washout - ANKLE - KNEE high with SEMI-GLASSY conditions. | |
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Mr. Crabs
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| Hmmm...a surfboard sacrifice!!?? I know we could burn all the "kook's" boards and maybe throw a few of them in their as well. Just kidding. We were all kooks once. Anyone have about 6 or 7 million laying around? We could build a Typhoon Lagoon style wave pool! Hey, it looks like a little bit of a small workable right every now and then at the NE side of the pier @1pm...oh yeah, the Folly Beach Gods have forbidden us to surf there, so never mind. | |
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Out west, my buddies would throw a “Snow God Party”. They would scrounge up old skis and snowboards and burn them. They claimed it was a sacrifice to the snow gods. I never really thought it was a good idea but sure enough, after every party, the snow would come… |
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Mr. Crabs
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| Well at least there are some nice looking ladies out on the sand to check out. But I'd rather have waves. This flat spell has to be broken some time. Saw a couple of small black tip sharks at the washout the other day, some cannon jelly fish too. August usually has a bloom of those moon jellies, you know the ones that have those long hair like tenicales...and peeing on it doesn't work. So watch out come July and August. And oh...at 9:40am...not much to surf on at the wash out. | |
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gooru
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| OK Mr. King Neptune...enough! What ever we did to deserve such crappy waves, we're sorry. Can we go surfing now? | |
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| 330PM EDT, The Washout - Inconsistent and mushy, but a decent THIGH-WAIST high rides every once in a while. | |
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| 800AM EDT, The Washout - KNEE high SEMI-CHOPPY WINDSWELL... | |
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| 1215PM EDT, The Washout - Looks like a some THIGH high windswell showing up. Might have some fun THIGH-WAIST high surf in an hour or so... Kinda weak, so a longboard looks to be best. | |
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| 445PM, The Washout - KNEE-THIGH high windswell and chop... | |
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| 530PM EDT, The Washout - KNEE high CHOP... Will it ever end? | |
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| 900AM EDT, The Washout - KNEE-THIGH with WAIST high sets and SEMI-GLASSY, Looks kind of fun, Best on a longboard, STOMACH high peak? | |
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724PM EDT, The Washout- KNEE HIGH SLOP, CHOPPY and DISORGANIZED. Sneaky THIGH-WAIST windswell sets, Barely ridable... |
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| 845AM EDT, The Washout - SW winds have picked up as expected. KNEE-THIGH high with WAIST high sets and CHOPPY/MUSHY and DISORGANIZED conditions. | |
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| 1100AM EDT - The Washout, ANKLE-KNEE high at best. A rare THIGH? Hopefully the SW chop will pick up for the evening high tide. | |
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Southerly winds have been slow to develop because of a weak low pressure offshore. But, southerly winds are now being reported at FBIS1 and should pick up tomorrow afternoon into Sunday. If I had to call a "best" day with the current models, I would say Sunday with building SW wind chop in the THIGH-WAIST range. During the past couple of mornings, the best waves have been reported a couple of hours after the low tide (1000AM-100PM) before the water fills in, so you might have a shot at some nice fun lines tomorrow before low tide and during mid-tide if the winds stays off of it. Looks like those folks are betting on a strong SW winds on Sunday and a frontal passage on Monday, leaving some leftovers in the water. I would agree, but overall, things are just looking weak. Any leftovers will be VERY short lived... Late next week is looking like a decent shot at some ENE-E swell filling in along the Western Atlantic. The building surface high pressure over the Central Atlantic and the materializing easterly trades will set up a nice long wind fetch. The length and strength of the fetch is yet to be determined. The low in the Central Caribbean I have been talking about has petered out of the models over the last 24 hours, but the models still have something brewing down there. Just not organized enough to spark much interest… |
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Jim
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| Hows it looking for tomorrow / Sunday. I've heard some folks say monday should be good, but damn work. | |
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| 600PM - The Washout, THIGH high at best, Averaging around ANKLE-KNEE with SEMI-CHOPPY conditions. | |
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| 320PM - The Washout, KNEE-THIGH and SEMI-CHOPPY/MUSHY conditions. Pretty weak. Rare WAIST-STOMACH with zippy short lines. | |
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| Waves this morning at the Washout (900AM EDT), ANKLE-KNEE with THIGH high sets and SEMI-GLASSY conditions. | |
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