New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez joined a group of Vietnam War veterans for a somber Memorial Day event in her district on Monday to honor the numerous local residents who have paid the ultimate sacrifice while serving their country overseas.
Good-Epic: New England, May 22
Early-season subtropical storm Ana sends surf to East Coast
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Photo: Trevor Murphy
Normally in May, surfers on the East Coast of the United States are either biding their time, waiting impatiently for September or holed up in some far-flung locale more suited to Southern Hemisphere swells. Not this year. As Surfline forecaster Rob Mitstifer explains: “For the seventh year in a row, the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season kicked off before the official June 1st start date when we saw Subtropical Storm Ana develop this week. Even though named storms themselves normally attract most of the attention, Ana was really not very impressive on its own. The unsung hero that made this a special swell was a massive ridge of high pressure that extended all the way from the Azores across the Canadian Maritimes and down the US East Coast.”
Highlights: La Bomba, Part 1: South of the Border
Showcasing series of solid south swells from Peru to Mexico
Tyler Warren, Puerto. Photo: Billy Watts
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Last week, when we saw swaths of purple marching across the South Pacific, we got pretty excited, as we tend to do when we see that kind of stuff, and decided to call it the La Bomba swell. Turns out, maybe we should’ve gone a little more plural on the whole thing. Las Bombas, maybe. Especially for Central America and Mexico, which have basically been pumping nonstop for almost a week now. Some places have been better than others, of course, but there’s been no shortage of energy in the water South of the Border, as evidenced by the gallery below.