Winter Storm Swallows East Coast, Burps Up a Blizzard and Heaps of Swell Surfers from the Northeast to South Florida to the Caribbean respond accordingly. South Florida. Photo: Ben Hicks Matt Pruett Link copied to clipboard The best thing about the East Coast is its diversity from state to state, beach to beach: culturally, aesthetically, atmospherically. And yeah, surf-ically. You’ve got blizzard-battered pointbreak tundras up north, lefthand racetracks in turquoise bathwater down south, and any number of blustery beachbreaks in between. And sometimes, not often but sometimes, you get all that from one swell. Detailed Forecast Analysis: “The active storm track for the East Coast continued with yet another storm impacting us over the past several days,” explains Surfline’s Mike Watson. “This storm set up shop off the Mid Atlantic coast, remaining stationary for 24-30 hours and hammering the Northeast with blizzard conditions, along with widespread solid surf. Brutally cold air moved in, and the surfers who live for these types of conditions from Maryland to New England ended up scoring one of their better swells of the young 2021.”