A massive north swell is arriving in California and expected to build Thursday night into Friday morning, signaling a green light for the much anticipated Mavericks Invitational surf contest at notorious Mavericks near Half Moon Bay. How powerful the swell turns out to be and what type of conditions prevail remain to be seen. But it's the same swell that slammed parts of the Hawaiian islands on Wednesday and Thursday, luring throngs of spectators to the shores.
Hawaii News Now described it as "the largest swell in decades" and published a slide show showing massive waves breaking on Oahu's North Shore, near the fabled Waimea Bay. A headline atop a Honolulu Star Advertiser story on Wednesday screamed, "Surf up to 40 feet expected to roll in today."
As a result of all the publicity, nightmare traffic jams ensued on the highway leading from Oahu's south side to the north shore. The problem for surfers, however, was that strong offshore winds created stormy conditions, leaving most of the popular spots unrideable when the swell was peaking Wednesday.
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Comment: Yes, this is common NOW (as in, the last 3 or so years). No, this is not 'normal'.
There were two similar incidents in the Arlington/Fort Worth area last year and in 2012: Then consider that 'loud booms' and meteors have been exploding overhead with increasing regularity lately, and that investigations into some of these mass bird deaths around the world are the result of 'blunt force trauma of unknown origin'... We know that many more of these things must be exploding above the US on a regular basis because it's the rare one that is actually seen/heard.