Typical winter.
SURF:
All kinds of waves and weather this past week. Must be winter. Today we’ve got great conditions but not much surf. There’s some waist high NW with chest high sets and calm winds. South SD is probably your best bet with consistent chest high waves. Good news is that there is still storm activity in the north Pacific and we’ve got a new NW showing up Saturday afternoon and really firing on all cylinders by Sunday evening into Monday morning. Sunday could have some 10’ sets in north SD, double overhead+ in south SD, and some overhead sets in the OC. Models show a weak cold front coming through Sunday and there’s a 50/50 chance we could have light showers. Hopefully they’re wrong and we don’t get any S wind from it. Regardless, Sunday will have big surf- just keep an eye on the weather.
Tides the next few days are 6’ at sunrise, -1’ at 1pm, and up to 3’ at sunset. Water temps are still cold- enough said. Make sure to keep up to date on the waves and weather at Twitter/North County Surf.
FORECAST:
WEATHER:
We’ve had a lot of cold windy storms lately but not a ton of rain. Today we’ve got great weather and Saturday morning looks good too but another weak front makes it way into the area Saturday night. Models are advertising some showers on Sunday but nothing too exciting; probably more gloom than doom. Early to the middle of next week looks sunny and mild. Charts are showing a stormier pattern towards next weekend but that’s a while off. Keep it in the back of your mind though!
BEST BET:
Probably Monday morning as the big NW will be holding and hopefully the weak cold front from Sunday will have exited the region! NEWS OF THE WEEK:
The recent storm this week wasn’t a barn burner but it did give us a 1/3 of an inch of rain. So where does that put us for the season?-Newport Beach: 3.67” to date. Only 42% of normal.
-Oceanside: 5.28” to date. Only 62% of normal.
-San Diego: 5.78” to date. Only 89% of normal.
Good news is that models show the La Nina declining rapidly through May. Hopefully that leads to a little more rain. On the flipside- March is still shaping up to be drier than normal- so the rapidly declining La Nina may not make much of a difference. At least La Nina should be gone by summer and maybe we’ll have some 70 degree water temps in July finally!
BEST OF THE BLOG:
Big fan of Mason Ho. Actually the whole Ho family- dad Michael, Uncle Derek, sis Coco- and why not throw in long lost relative Don for the heck of it. Mason surfed a fun/weird/sketchy wedge in Brazil last month and I got the video to prove it. And need a cheap 2nd dry full suit for those chilly dawn patrols? I’ve got an app for that. Or something like that. And of course the mid-week Surf Check and a more in-depth THE Surf Report- all of that and more in the blog below!
PIC OF THE WEEK:
I apologize for last week’s Pic of the Week. It wasn’t nice of me to highlight a frozen gloomy desolate point break in the middle of winter. What we need around here is a little pick me up- like some tropical sun and barrels. So I bring you the ‘Useless Umbrella’. Useless you ask? Well if it was me standing in that boat, I wouldn’t be holding an umbrella but rather a 6’6” rounded pin. Actually, I wouldn’t be in the boat- I’d be pitted in the barrel. For more shots to keep you daydreaming at work all day, check out JasonKenworthy’s portfolio.
Keep Surfing,
Michael W. Glenn
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