All good things must come to an end.
SURF:
Wintertime in so-Cal doesn't get any better than that. Except for the hordes of goons running into each other in the line-ups, it was pretty all-time this past week. Plenty of head high to overhead surf, offshore winds, sunny skies, and Mr. South Swell made a small appearance too for the wave starved central OC. Today is the last day we get good conditions and surf for awhile so get on it! This morning we have leftover NW with a touch of small SW and clean conditions for some shoulder high waves. Tomorrow the low clouds and fog return along with the sea breeze. We should have some chest high NW left- so it will be rideable even though conditions start to detiorate. For Sunday, it's catch 22- drizzle and wind return but we do have a new head high NW arriving for SD/north OC and
around waist high for south OC. Long story short, we'll have waves this weekend
but the weather starts to fall apart. Water temps are still high 50's and the tides the next few days are around 5' at sunrise, -1' at 1pm, and 3' at sunset. Make sure to keep up to date on the swells and conditons at Twitter/North County Surf.
FORECAST:
Once we get through the junky conditions on Sunday/Monday, the NW backsdown Monday/Tuesday. Wednesday morning looks pretty small but conditions should be clean. By Wednesday afternoon we start to see yet another swell arrive- this time from a more westerly direction. Models show this one to be pretty good with overhead waves in most areas- kind of like the one we had earlier in the week. And conditions should be clean again by then. Not a bad stretch of waves we've been having- considering December was on the small and stormy side.
WEATHER:
Great 'summer' weather this past week will slowly transition to a more typical winter scenario- low clouds, drizzle, and a chance of showers. Today is our last nice day in the 70's as Saturday the sea breeze returns and the low clouds thicken. By Sunday we're cloudy witn drizzle and a chance of showers in the evening. So if you want to work on your tan, today's the day. Monday the light
showers continue and we'll only hit the high 50's at the beaches- about a 15 degree drop from today. Things start to clear out mid-week though and we'll have pleasant cool sunny weather by the 2nd half of next week.
BEST BET:
Considering it will be 70 today with light winds and a fun swell combo, make sure to leave work early today and get some lip bashes. It is Friday, right? Or if you want something a little bigger, wait for that new W swell to peak next Thursday with good weather returning.
NEWS OF THE WEEK:
Is it just me or has it been dry around here lately? After experiencing our 9th wettest December on record- with San Diego receiving 7" of rain and the OC getting 9", January has been a dud with just 1/4" of rain in SD and 3/4" of rain in the OC. Even though we may get showers on Sundaynight/Monday morning, it probably won't make a dent in our monthly totals. It's amazing because January historically is our wettest month. Even though December was abnormal with that
fire hose pointed at us, you'd expect January to get somewhere near our average of 2-3". As it stands now, we'll probably be a top 15 finish for one of the driest January's on record; which is finally on track with the La Nina predictions this winter. The Climate Prediction Center unfortunately came out with their extended precipitation forecasts recently and it looks like the dry weather is here to stay- they are predicting below normal rainfall the next 2 weeks, 1 month out, and 3 months out. Average monthly rainfall for January through April is around 6" and since we got bamboozled with pretty much no rain for January, I'm assuming we're only due for about 2" of rain the rest of the season. That would put SD at our average of around 10" for the season and the OC above average at 15" (normal is 13"). Can't complain- we only got about 6" total last season.
PIC OF THE WEEK:
Ahhh, another prime location for a Walmart Supercenter, condos, Hometown Buffet and seven Starbucks. Now if there was only some way I could get the Coastal Commission to let me monopolize that wave and tax those boat owners...
Keep Surfing,
Michael W. Glenn
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