Como se dice “firing” in Spanish? Photo: ISA / Dave Nelson
Pristine Popoyo is looking better and better, with more hurricane swell on the horizon. The ISA World Surfing Games is running their Open Men’s and Women’s event this week at Nicaragua’s iconic A-frame peak. Now, with Hurricane Blanca on the horizon, this sweet situation just keeps getting more deliciosa.
A massive hurricane off the coast of Mexico is steam rolling down Central America, forecasted to pulse at the end of the weekend and into next week. Surfline, the official forecaster for the ISA World Surfing Games, has prepared event competitors to wax up their step-up boards.
“Outer reef will deliver the goods,” Surfline predicts. And just when we thought Popoyo couldn’t get any better, the horizon indicates some heavy surf for the Open Men’s and Women’s team competition. Fighting for gold medals and their nation, ISA Worlds contestants are fired up for epic warm water swell. This place is heaven on earth. And Surfline is forecasting for bigger surf and an active outer reef in the coming days. Crazy to think Popoyo could get even better.
With Hurricane Blanca brewing off Mexico, Outer Reef will be offering the goods. Surfline forecast from June 4, 2015.
Here’s the official Surfline forecast:
Lately, we have been watching the progress of a large storm slowly track eastward across the South Pacific, which peaked in intensity yesterday. As a result, a nice long run of SW swell (235-205°) will gradually fill in through the rest of the week. The initial push of this swell will slowly fill in over the next couple days, topping out Thursday afternoon/Friday with chest-head high to overhead sets at Popoyo. The SW swell will then increase further over the weekend with head high to well overhead sets rising up at Main Reef. Sunday will see occasional double overhead sets. Monday the 8th will be the peak of this swell, with surf increase a notch further. Outer Reef will be offering the goods with larger sets during the peak of this swell. In addition – We currently have Hurricane Blanca developing well offshore to the SW of Mainland Mexico. At this point, Blanca is looking to deliver some secondary West swell to the region, building in Friday and topping out over the weekend, although this won’t add any additional size to the primary SW swell that will be running.
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