Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Surf Check 7/24/12

Nothing too exciting going on. We've had some fun but small SW swell the past couple of days and some smaller NW windswell too for chest high waves around town and some plus sets in the OC.
The clouds didn't really clear out until late in the day and the W wind blew early so it made whatever rideable waves we had look a little funky. Unfortunately that's about it the next few days- just some small SW well for chest high sets in far north couny SD and the OC.
Tides the next few days are 2' at sunrise, dip slightly to 1' at breakfast, go up to 5' late afternoon, and drop to 1' again at sunset.
The weather won't be much different than what you've seen lately- low clouds having a hard time burning off at the beaches and a little bit of wind bump. Not classic summer conditions by any stretch. Water temps though are a pleasant 68-70 degrees.
On the horizon we have some NW windswell on the charts for Sunday for maybe chest high sets in south county SD and about knee to waist high in north county SD.
The tropics are trying to organize but doing a feeble job at it. There's some clouds in-between Cabo and Hawaii that were trying to get their act together yesterday but not holding up to well today. I don't expect it to form into a swell producing storm for us. The southern hemisphere hasn't been much better with just random low pressure systems spitting out little SW swells for us. Best bet is to get some surf towards the OC early next week for inconsistent chest high sets- not looking too good for the start of the US Open on July 28th.
Good news is that a solid storm formed off Antarctica today but it's forecasted to be short lived. It should though send some head high+ surf for the middle of next week (August 1st) in the OC and shoulder high sets in far north county SD. In a nutshell- not much surf the next 7 days but we should have a good SW swell the middle of next week!