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Goodbye to Long Beach

Sold the condo in Long Beach so gilgo.com’s Long Beach Surf Cam is going to be retired. Other Long Beach surf cams that can be checked include;

NYSEA featuring a live video from the Allegria Hotel at National Blvd.

The surfersview website also provides a live video feed and a forecast, the surf cam displayed is the feed from Long Beach Surf Shop located on Main Street where you can get the same video with a local’s call on the forecast.

This photo of me was taken by photographer walking the beach back in 2007, had it up for 1 day and he called for an acknowledgement. I did not want to commercialize the site, so I took it down. If he sees this post, please send me link information. Hope all get waves, peter

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Stormsurf

Seems like Swellinfo ongoing forecast issue is lingering. Looked around for alternative, found stormsurf.com.

Graphics are last decade, but the surf forecast and weather information is extensive. Mark Sponsier created the site back in 1998. He packed the site with information on how waves are created, tracked and forecasted.

The 5 day forecast for Gilgo is part of a broader New Jersey to New York forecast, but serves up some good info.

There is also a buoy forecast looking out 5 days that has couple of different reporting screens, here is Buoy 440025, 30 miles south of Islip.

Check out their Tutorial Page for some in depth explanations. Last, one odd situation is that the site is not https, site is still running in the clear.

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gilgo.com mobile page debuts 7/7/17

Put up link on gilgo.com to mobile page with jpeg and the mov files.

The mov file actually works on iphones very well.

am working on weather and tide display.

Let me know if mov works on other phones please; email peter@gilgo.com

mov file does not seem to work on some computers and or browsers, just like on main gilgo in the last year or so, apple stopped support of quicktime mov files. on my mac, sometimes you do not even see the video frame, most just says not supported.

update 12/17, upgraded cam software to mp4 format, seems to work on many more computers.