If anybody’s gearing up for the East Coast’s hurricane season, it’s Ben Gravy. September is more or less the beginning of the Atlantic’s true hurricane season and this month, Florence is kicking it off.
According to the National Hurricane Center, Florence was about 2,000 miles from the U.S. Coast Wednesday with sustained wind speeds of 130 mph. And it’s all expected to culminate in tormenting the Atlantic Coast — and grace it with surf for some — next week.
So what’s a frother to do while waiting for waves to arrive? For Gravy, the answer is to throw some fuel on the fire by suiting up and taking a swing at weather forecasting and swell forecasting…from “The Hurricane Hype Center,” of course.
“Your one-stop shop to find out if (drum roll, please…) your local beach is going to be nuking!”
“Hurricane-size swells are on the Doppler radar,” he says. “Check out the radar, we got all this crazy stuff moving around all over here. It is wrapping around, it is circulating, the wind is blowing, the swells are coming in. And everybody is gonna get some epic surf.”
If only every weatherman were this cool.
