I am thinking about splitting the Monmouth County page into two regions. Long Branch, NJ and Belmar, NJ There are some swell events where there can be some big differences between the northern and southern parts of the county. Anyone have any thoughts on this - positive or negative?
2010 Belmar/Long Branch There were some major differences this past year on what showed up in the Belmar/Spring Lake area as compared to what did not show up in the Long Branch area for certain swells. I think it would be a great idea.........
That crams two fairly specific forecast locations into a very short stretch of coastline... like 10 miles. Is there a difference? Sure. But there's a difference in a lot of places. I say leave it alone.
why not just do it as one of those swell faceing buttons at the top of the screen? there used to be those different direction buttons you can click on depending on which direction the beach faced edit: like in Ocean City, NJ: SE or SSE
One area works substantially better than the other on certain conditions, and vice-versa. This is knowledge gleaned over many years of experience and trial/error. A big part of me wants to keep this knowledge exclusive to those who have put in the time and effort to figure it out. So I would lean toward the "leave it alone" camp on this.
I think that rather than adding more named breaks, the direction should be able to be tweaked like the SE/SSE in OCNJ. This way, it doesn't "give it all away", but at the same time, does provide all the information. Or allow "custom forecasts" for any point on the map based on global position coordinates. Like magicseaweed said they plan to implement, but show no signs of doing.... Can't go wrong with more customability. That's a word right?
I think belmar forecast is just like SSH. And monmouth county is more long branch oriented. Leave it. Different spots are affected differently with each swell. Its the surfers choice to score or not.