Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Surf Check 4/20/11

Must be spring- low clouds hanging around and southern hemi swells marching up the coast. Today we have leftover SW swell that peaked last night. Sets are head high in far north county and the OC. Tide was pretty low this morning, around -1' at 5:30 am and it's hitting a high around lunch of 5'. It was pretty walled for the dawn patrol session so the incoming tide should help the shape.

Weather unfortunately is a little gloomy with the low clouds and it's going to stay that way through the weekend as we have a couple week fronts moving through the area tomorrow and Saturday. It will be cool and cloudy for the Easter weekend.

Further out we have another SW headed our way for Friday. This looks to be the same size as the swell today. There will also be a little bump from the NW generated by the weak fronts moving through area. That should help peak up the SW swell at the beach breaks. Water temps have warmed up slightly to 62. If the air was warmer and the sun was out, you probably could wear a springsuit finally. Looks like some more NW windswell for early next week and the air temps and sun should finally come out.