February keeps January's weather. The lows keep arriving and the size stays up. What changes is on the beach rather than in the ocean: the towns that overflow in August have their car parks back, and a line-up that holds thirty people in summer holds three.
What ends a session in February is the temperature, not the wave. The sea bottoms out at 12°C towards the end of the month, six weeks after the air has, so the water is at its coldest while the days are already getting longer. A 4/3 will not give you three hours. A 5/4 with a hood, boots and gloves is the difference between one session and two.
The sand keeps moving underneath all of it. Storms rearrange the banks week by week, so a beach that worked on Tuesday can be worth nothing on Friday. February rewards a car and the habit of looking before you unload it.
