Ireland's west coast is well known for it's surfing. The west coast is fully exposed to the Atlantic ocean and all of it's might. Wave swells can travel for thousands of miles building up energy and arrive from any direction, sometimes creating great blue giants like Aileens, and all sizes in between. https://theadventurepack.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/hugo.jpg

Unfortunately on the east coast it's whole other story, Great Britain blocks wave access from all directions but south. In this series I'd like to investigate Buoy data to see past surfing conditions and eventually build up to predicting them. http://webapps.marine.ie/virtual_earth_polygon/images/websitemap_15.JPG