Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Surf Check 12/20/11


Last day of fall and it's looking pretty fun out there. We had a new NW fill in yesterday and waves around town are chest high with inconsistent bigger sets.

There's even some head high+ waves down in south county SD. I was hoping for some SW today but it's not doing much- especially since the NW is more dominant.

Our NW holds tomorrow and the weather starts to get clean up too. It's looking like high pressure is setting up for the first week of winter and we'll have sunny skies, light winds, and temps near 70 at the beaches.

Typical Southern California Christmas weather. Unfortunately our NW dies off the next few days and it's looking pretty small by Saturday.

But Santa is right on time and we should get another fun shoulder high NW Christmas eve into Christmas Day- and a continuation of our great weather. There may be some small SW too showing Saturday but the OC will be the only ones to see maybe waist high waves. After that high pressure starts to break down and there's no real storms on the charts to give us rain in the near future but we will get some more NW towards Tuesday. All in all you can't ask for more with nice weather on tap the next week and a couple fun NW swells.

Water temps are a chilly 58 degress and tides are becoming extreme the next few days with a 6' tide at sunrise, dropping to -1' at 2pm and back up to 3' at sunset.