It feels like Friday the 13th around here.
SURF:
Pretty fun surf this week. Nothing major but a fun little combo SW/NW interrupted Wednesday by showers. Today is a carbon copy of earlier in the week- fun NW/SW swell yesterday is now replaced by scary stormy conditions.
Central CA buoys are picking up quick this morning and tomorrow there will be good NW/SW in the water again but we need today's storm to exit the region quickly tonight. If it lingers, tomorrow morning may have junky NW winds and clearing skies and jumbled NW windswell on top of good SW swell. So it's a tossup of what tomorrow will be like; if you see the skies clearing out tonight, tomorrow morning may be cold and offshore with head high+ NW/SW combo peaks. If not- wait until Sunday when conditions finally clean up. Should be a fun weekend of surf if you can time the conditions right.
Tides the next few days are 3' at sunrise, 0' at lunch, and about 4' at sunset. Water temps are holding in the high50's. Make sure to keep up to date on the waves and weather this weekend at
Twitter/North County Surf.
FORECAST:
Once the waves and weather clean up this weekend, we've got nice conditions to start the week and no real surf to speak of. No major storms up north or down south results in small conditions here to start the work week. Models are only showing a small bump from the NW for chest high waves on Wednesday in SD and nothing else.
The southern hemisphere has a solid storm flaring up around the 18th-21st of April but that means we won't get surf until around the 25th- a full 12 days away. I don't know if I can wait that long...
WEATHER:
Got a storm on top of us today and it's bringing breezy conditions, over 1/2" of rain, and cool air temps. We need the rain though and I'm stuck at work, so I can wait out! It just better clear up by the weekend as we have new swells arriving and I want to get my groove on in the line-up. Saturday may be clear and windy while Sunday should be sunny and nice with temps rebounding to the mid-60's. Early next week we have temps hitting the low to mid-70's then high pressure breaks down slightly for a return of low clouds in the nights/mornings and temps back to the high 60's at the coast.
BEST BET:
IF... the storm today can clear out quickly, we MIGHT have clean conditions Saturday for the new NW/SW combo swell. If not, crack it Sunday!
NEWS OF THE WEEK:
You might have heard about the rusted-out, abandoned fishing vessel adrift off British Columbia. The 170 foot vessel is the Ryou-Un Maru, a squid boat that broke free from a dock in Hokkaido, Japan, after the March 11, 2011 tsunami. Fortunately, no one was on board when the tsunami happened. Over the past year it has drifted across the Pacific Ocean and was first observed in Canadian waters. The U.S. Coast Guard sank the boat on April 5th about 155 nautical miles away from Baranof Island in southeast Alaska. NOAA reported this week that the drift of the vessel confirms what generations of beach combers have known for a long time. The Pacific Ocean currents form a giant conveyor belt that carries flotsam across the Pacific. Over the years they’ve found glass fish floats, glass bottles, and other Japanese items that have washed up along the coast of the northwest U.S. But a big fishing vessel—that must be something really unusual—or is it? In 2003, the 97-foot ship Genei Maru #7 caught fire and was abandoned at sea about halfway between Japan and the United States. This “ghost ship” ran aground on Kodiak, Alaska, after drifting at sea, crewless, for five months. And in 2006, the U.S. Coast Guard found an abandoned coal barge adrift off the Kenai Peninsula of Alaska, which had wandered across the Pacific from Russia. But there is evidence that vessels have been drifting across the Pacific for an even longer time. Some archaeologists think that Indigenous cultures of the Pacific Northwest Coast have been strongly influenced by the effects of foreign shipwrecks. Artifacts from shipwrecks, including metals and other technologies, may have been used by these tribes. One of the oldest record is from 1617, when an abandoned Japanese ship was found near Acapulco, Mexico, but there are likely many other wrecks that went unrecorded because the vessels probably stranded in areas then inhabited only by native tribes. The March 2011 tsunami certainly added to the amount of debris floating across the Pacific. If you find items you think might be from the tsunami, make sure to report them to
DisasterDebris@noaa.gov!
BEST OF THE BLOG:
If you haven't seen the worst wave in the world, then check out the blog this week. Hint- some people think it's the best wave in the world but I beg to differ. Also got some polarized shades for under $20 on the blog this week along with Etnies and Globe shoes cheap cheap cheap. 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:
Why do I love New Zealand? Let me count the ways:
1. Uncrowded line ups.
2. Breathtaking scenery.
3. Lack of kooks.
4. Variety of surf.
5. Friendly people.
6. Lack of kooks.
Numbers 3 and 6 are the biggest reasons.
For more amazing shots of the land that time forget, check out
Chris Garden's website.
Keep Surfing,
Michael W. Glenn
Savant
Hamburgler
Trying to Get My Headaround The Chris Brown Wraparound
