Swell Coming - Will they walk??

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Inlet Camera Link = Lake Worth Inlet Webcam

Hurricane Erin WPB 2025.jpg
 
So freaking flat out down here and i'm kicking myself because I didn't go diving
 
Were there actually official forecasts of nastiness from Erin for South Florida? Or just speculation and hand-wringing as clickbait?
 
I never saw a forecast that threatened the weather here in the Keys. Even the days where wind velocity did break 15 kts, it's out of the north/northwest so we are largely protected. Yesterday saw 1' seas for most of the day and I anticipate the same today.
 
Jupiter Thursday Swell
The best part is nothing is hitting down south, so we should get clear water in a day after the swell moves out because the gulf stream will bring in clear waters.

JUP-Swell_21Aug2025.jpg
 
Who is "they" and where will they walk if they decide to do so?
He can share more details.
Lobsters are social and that's why you'll find a handful together in or near the same holes. The hurricane produces a deep water swell that reaches to the bottom of the ocean and tosses the sand around loosening & moving it. The currents then move and deposit that sand infront of the reef lobster holes where they are hiding from the swell. That sand will accumulate and start blocking the lobster's home like a snow drift infront of your door.

Just like a downpour in a store's parking lot and you become trapped with your fellow shoppers infront of the doorways, eventually 1 by 1 they say, “The heck with this, I'm making a run for it”. And the deep lobsters are the same way. They see the others make a run (but it's really a walk) in a line to find a nicer hole and they follow the others in a line. Lobster's aren't stupid and they know if they can cross over to a shallower reef line to get out of the gulf stream current sand storm, they will find a better bunch of new open holes. A Florida lobster can travel 2 miles in a single night !! There are many other reasons that Florida lobsters “ WALK”, and hurricane storm swell is just one that I explained.
 

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