Why do conditions for surfing vary by season?
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The weather is determined by the heating and cooling of different areas of earth. If it is winter in the northern hemisphere, it is summer in the southern hemishere, basically because of amount of exposure each hemisphere gets to the sun. This will cause different weather conditions in different areas. \n\nFor example, in Hawaii, the surf is good on the South Shore, but flat on the North Shore in the summer. In the winter conditions are reversed. Hawaii being in the northern hemisphere but relatively close to the equator gets its southern summer swells from winter storms generated near New Zealand in the Southern hemisphere. During the winter, the northern swells are generated by winter storms in the North Pacific.
96056
I honestly believe that hurricane season is only a month long. SEPTEMBER. Hurricanes hit landfall most often in September. It won't be worse this year. There will be other storms that will take place during that time frame.
546691
I have not surf there but there are good profesional surfers that have come from there...  I don't know if you ever surfed in the Atlantic but the waves are gerenated but systems, stroms, low pressure, ect.  Just find out throuhg the net when and where are the best spot.  After that drop me some lines on how it when.  Da boyz from La Pared PR.
745942
Excellent question!!  And one which is never fully explained on any weather forecast/ weather station....\n\nWeather conditions are controlled by the air currents over the Pacific Ocean, for the most part, first of all.  You can watch typhoons or Pacific hurricanes travel westward, until they reach a landmass, then these low-pressure storms will turn North-Northeast and follow the jet stream, until they are turned South-southeast ward, and affect the U.S. northwest states, Washington, Oregon, California.....\n \nThese extra-tropical storms keep their strength as they travel around the path of the Northern jetstream, droping rain and producing winds not unlike a hurricane, as they follow the jetstream paths around the world.  \n\nAfter these storms, these Pineapple Expresses, have traversed the United States, they again gain strength over the Northern Atlantic ocean, and then let go of the precipatation over Britian and Europe, where the Original storm dies.....\n\nAgain, excellent question.  Hope this enlightens you!!
1044890
Climate- tropical along coast, temperate inland, arid in the south\nThere are two seasons - a hot rainy season from November to April, and a cooler, dry season from May to October. East Coast has most rainfall, notorious for a hot, humid climate. The average yearly temperature is 18.4 degrees Celsius (65 degrees Fahrenheit).
289316
They are often different due to the different water temperatures.  The total amount of dissolved salt in water decreases with temperature.
230184
Sounds cold but have a good time:\nhttp://www.surfline.com/travel/surfmaps/surfmap.cfm?id=37
915955
You have probably noticed that the jet stream, cold fronts, and that sort of weather all moves across the U.S. from west to east. What is happening is that New York, even though it is on the coast, is getting its weather from air masses that have come across thousands of miles of land, so the effect of being near the ocean is minimal. \n\nThis is only the case in big weather events such as fronts. On days where not much is going on, I suspect that the land/sea breeze dominates the daily temperatures and makes it fairly mild.
447836
The coastal areas are temperate and dry.  The Andes prevents moister air from the inland jungles from reaching the coast.  Ocean currents keep weather systems moving northward so away from the coast.
881047
To begin with El Nino is not a weather condition it is a cold peruvian current that flows equatorward along the coast of equador and peru. This flow encourages upwelling of cold nutrient filled waters that serve as the primary food source for milluons of fish. However near the end of the year a warm current that flows sluthward along the the coasts of equador and peru replaces the cold current. So the term el nino is used for the episodes of ocean warming that affect the eastern tropical pacific. So the major el nino events that happened in 1997 and 1998 are intimately related to the large scale atmospheric curculation. each time el nino occursthe barometric pressure drops over large pertions of the southeast pacific, if you are confused shoot me an email
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Taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasons\n\nThe ultimate cause of the seasons is the fact that the Earth's axis is not perpendicular to its orbital plane; it deviates by an angle of approximately 23.5 degrees of arc. Thus, at any given time during the summer or winter, one part of the planet is more directly exposed to the rays of the Sun. This exposure alternates as the Earth revolves in its orbit. At any given time, regardless of season, the northern and southern hemispheres experience opposite seasons.\n\nSeasonal weather fluctuations also depend on factors such as proximity to oceans or other large bodies of water, currents in those oceans, El Niño/ENSO and other oceanic cycles, and prevailing winds.\n\nIn the temperate and polar regions, seasons are marked by changes in the amount of sunlight, which in turn often cause cycles of dormancy in plants and hibernation in animals. These effects vary with latitude, and with proximity to bodies of water. For example, the South Pole is in the middle of the continent of Antarctica, and therefore a considerable distance from the moderating influence of the southern oceans. The North Pole is in the Arctic Ocean, and thus its temperature extremes are buffered by the presence of all that water. The result is that the South Pole is consistently colder during the southern winter than the North Pole during the northern winter.\n\nThe cycle of seasons in the polar and temperate zones of one hemisphere is opposite to that in the other. When it is summer in the Northern hemisphere, it is winter in the Southern hemisphere, and vice versa, and when it is spring in the Northern hemisphere it is autumn in the Southern hemisphere, and vice versa.\n\nIn the tropics, there is no noticeable change in the amount of sunlight. However, many regions (famously the northern Indian Ocean) are subject to monsoon rain and wind cycles. Curiously, a study of temperature records over the past 300 years (David Thompson, Science, April 1995) shows that the climatic seasons, and thus the seasonal year, are governed by the anomalistic year rather than the tropical year.
399807
Like all the islands of the caribbean the best time is on February or January or December . there arent hurricanes, just some occacionals rains, an a lot of sunshine.
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It is because of the sea currents of the Pacific.\nThey are cold and generate dryness conditions.\nThe same effect happens in the South Hemisphere.\nThis effect, disappears the more you go east after the mountains.\nIt is very dry on the coast until the 42-45° parallel, and then, going norther in the case of North America or souther in the case of South America, becomes a lot more humid.\nThat's the difference between California and the British Columbia for example.\nAnd between north Chile and south Chile.
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The main reason why the Atlantic coast is more stormy than the Pacific coast (as in Hurricanes, Nor'Easters, etc.) is the fact that a warm water current called the gulf stream happens to flow from south to north up the Atlantic Coast.  This provide much more energy for storms to use as they approach land.  Also, the prevailing winds in the tropical regions of the Northern Hemisphere happen to be from east to west, thus pushing tropical moisture toward much of the Gulf coast region and pushing stroms, like Hurricanes, from the Mid-Atlantic toward the East Coast.
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What happens to what?  Different things happen in different places.  In Hawaii winters swells are up on the North shores, and it rains more.  In Colorado it snows.  But these are just weather items.  You could be referring to what happens to the sun, or cultural events.  So what are you asking?
986306
You actually have seasons. \n\nWinter can be very cold and more snow than usual.
682842
Since the season is typically from mid July into September for Arizona, it is difficult to predict at this early stage.  Basically, you need to find out if certain systematical factors come into play.  Such factors include the presence of an area of high pressure called the subtropical, coupled with weak highs that form over the region and a thermal low that forms over Baja California, extending through the northeast to Arizona.  \n\nWithout those factors present, it is difficult to predict with certainty whether the monsoon season will create wetter conditions than average.\n\nSource: http://www.answers.com/topic/monsoon