Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Surf Check 6/26/12

Nothing earth shattering today but looking darn fone nonetheless. We've got a small combo NW windswell joining a SW groundswell for chest high sets. Sun came out early today, wind is 5mph from the W and picking up slightly and water temps are high 60's. Beach temps should hit low 70's today too.

Tides are 2' at sunrise, stay around 1' mid-morning, head up to 5' late afternoon, and go dow to 2' at sunset. Looks fun out there. Good for a lunchtime surf or if you're lucky enough to be out school (like my groms) then hang at the beach all day and get crispy.
If you like the summer weather today, then you're going to love the rest of the week. High pressure is setting up shop and we'll have sunny warm skies through at least Saturday. Look for minimal low cloud presence in the nights/mornings- finally. Pretty cool to wake up at 5:30am, see the sun out, and get a quick surf in before work. Just need some more surf!
On the forecast front, just some minor SW swell the next few days and the small NW windswell will die off. We do though have winds increasing slightly towards the weekend off Point Conception and our outer waters for more waist high+ NW windswell for the weekend and slightly bigger towards Monday.

And the southern hemisphere has been fairly quiet and unorganized (what's new this spring/summer)but it will at least send us some small background SW swells towards Friday for chest high sets similar to today. Luckily there's a storm on the charts today which may give us shoulder high+ surf (and slightly bigger sets for the OC) towards the 4th of July holiday. God bless America!