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Super Typhoon Bavi Hurls Historic 20ft Summer Swell at Cloud 9 (Video)
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Super Typhoon Bavi Hurls Historic 20ft Summer Swell at Cloud 9 (Video)

Surfer·Dashel Pierson·2 months ago
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Super Typhoon Bavi, the planet's largest active storm, has unleashed an unprecedented, out-of-season swell across the Philippine Sea, sending monstrous waves crashing straight into the legendary surf break of Cloud 9 on Siargao Island. A new video from July 8th captures the raw power of the storm as massive, towering walls of water obliterate the famed reefbreak. The sheer size, about double-overhead on the face, of the surf has stunned the local community, with the Instagram post noting that the ocean is showing "unreal out-of-season power" and delivering "a heavy winter-style pulse in the dead of summer." Check it out below. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/06PKxc-S2xs Typically, Cloud 9's prime surfing window runs from August through November. This mid-summer awakening is exceptionally rare, triggered by Bavi's immense 1,029-mile-wide wind field displacing massive volumes of water across the Western Pacific.…

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