Got some fun NW surf today. A little lined up for the beach breaks but good for the reefs and points. There's a little background SW too but the NW is dominant and it's not helping to peak it up. Sets look to be shoulder high and there is no wind on it. Should stay clean for the better part of the day.
Tides are starting to mellow out finally as they're sitting around 2' at sunrise, just over 5' at lunch, and back down to 0' at sunset. Water temps are hovering around 60. Things start to get interesting tomorrow as we have a cold low pressure system headed down from the north.
Wednesday starts off with some low clouds and fog as the front approaches but then the bulk of the low pressure looks to be staying over land Thursday/Friday so we won't get much in the way of showers but we will get some cold gusty offshores from it.
There is also swell behind this system so we may get some shoulder high surf again torwards Wednesday afternoon through Friday morning and cold offshores in the 15mph+ range. Inland foothill areas may have gusts up to 70mph. Temps will also be cold with daytime highs in the low 60's and nighttime temperatures in the mid-40's. Could make for a chilly dawn patrol on Thursday. But it will be worth it if the swell arrives and offshores develop. After that it's looking pretty small for the weekend and early next week as our next NW won't arrive until maybe Wednesday.
There's also some SW forecasted to flare up towards the end of this week which may give us should shoulder high surf towards next weekend the 10th. It's pretty much the opposite peak season of SW swells but anything is possible- considering we had a category 4 hurricane off Baja last week.
