Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Surf Check 4/24/12


Beautiful day but not much surf. Have a little SW in the water for waist high sets. Not looking any better tomorrow as we have a late season storm headed our way. But before I get ahead of myself, let's have a look at today's conditions.
Just some background SW in the water with your best bet to surf far north county SD or the OC. Wind this afternoon is WSW at 10-15 mph. Air temp is 70.

Tides are 0' at sunrise, 3' mid-morning, just down to 2' late in the day, and back to 3' at sunset. Not much of a tide swing all day.
As advertised above, we have a late season storm headed our way. Nothing major but winds of around 20mph from the S early on and switching to NW Thursday morning. Rainfall totals should be around 1/2" at the coast. Snow levels will be high as the storm is already pretty south of us and is picking up warm tropical moisture. There should be a little NW in the water tomorrow along with SW again but if you don't get it at the crack of dawn (and even then the S wind may be blowing already) you may not get any surf until everything cleans up on Friday.
For Friday into the weekend, we had some storm activity in the southern hemisphere and we should see some chest high SW on Saturday. We also have some activity forecasted in the Aleutians this week too which should send shoulder high NW to us on Saturday. With the departing storm Thursday, we should have good weather this weekend for the fun combo swell. Low clouds should try to make a return for Sunday and early next week but nothing out of the ordinary- typical spring weather. Long story short- take a breather the next few days and crack it this weekend for some fun sunny surf.