Opposites attract.
SURF:
Great weather today and dying surf. Get it while you can! Today we've got some SW that peaked last night and a touch of small NW swell. Surf around town is chest high and conditions are clean.
waves/weather at Twitter/North County Surf.
FORECAST:
After a small clean weekend of surf, there's not much in the short term. We may
get a little bump of NW towards Tuesday for chest high sets in south SD and
possibly a better NW towards next weekend.
WEATHER:
Fantastic weather this weekend. We should have temps near 80 today at the beaches and close to the mid-80's tomorrow. Sunday looks to be slightly cooler with temps near 80 again but still pretty darn good. High pressure slooooooowly weakens after that and we may see a return of low clouds and fog the 2nd half of next week but for the near term, it's looking good.
BEST BET:
Some leftover SW swell and great conditions- even offshore in the OC. Everyone head to Huntington today!
NEWS OF THE WEEK:
Normally I don't talk much about East Coast weather since the focus of THE Surf
Report is southern California, but they've got a doozy of a storm setting up
shop on the eastern seaboard today. Currently Hurricane Sandy is a minimal
hurricane with 80mph winds spinning off Florida, but there's a cold front in the
midwest headed to the east coast and it could morph with Sandy. Kind of like a
'Frankenstorm' (perfect for Halloween). CNN layouts out the destruction that's
forecasted for our eastern brethren in the story below:
"No one hopes Hurricane Sandy lives up to its potential.
The storm that has already claimed nearly two dozen lives in the Caribbean
churned Friday near northern Bahamas, and meteorologists warn that it packs the
potential to slam the Northeastern United States as soon as Monday with powerful
winds, pelting rain and cold temperatures. Worst case, Sandy could merge with a
strong cold front from the west. The double threat could morph into a
"superstorm" that could sit over New England for days, making untold trouble for
millions of residents. Weather experts said it's a recipe not unlike 1991's
"Perfect Storm." At 11 a.m. ET Friday, forecasters said Sandy is losing shape
and is a Category 1 hurricane with winds of 80 mph. But it's not to be taken
lightly. "Forget about the category with this," said CNN meteorologist Rob
Marciano. "When you have trees with leaves on them still, this kind of wind and
rain on top of that, you're talking about trees that are going to come down,
power lines are going to be out and the coastal flooding situation is going to
be huge." Sandy's death toll in Haiti, Jamaica and Cuba this week was 21 people.
The U.S. target area is hard to predict at this point. Some landfall computer
models show the storm striking somewhere between Washington and Boston -- some
of the most densely populated areas of the country. U.S. residents in those
areas, forecasters said, should prepare for the possibility of several days
without power. "There is potential for widespread power outages, not just for a
couple of days but for a couple of weeks or more, if the storm stays on track,"
said meteorologist Kathy Orr of CNN affiliate KYW-TV in Philadelphia. Sandy
could be a storm "of historic proportion," she warns, and the City of Brotherly
Love could take a direct hit. "This could be like the 'Perfect Storm' 21 years
ago," said CNN meteorologist Chad Meyers. A combination of three weather systems
produced the famed "Perfect Storm" in the north Atlantic over Halloween 1991
when moisture flung north by Hurricane Grace combined with a high pressure
system and a cold front, according to the weather service. The current weather
conditions are not exactly the same as what produced the 1991 tempest. Although
Grace contributed significantly to the storm, it did not progress to New England
and did not make landfall, weather records show. On Friday, residents in South
Jersey were already stocking up on batteries and bottled water, and hardware
stores have put up preparedness displays, KYW reported. One location quickly
sold out of electric generators. "This is the worst timing for a storm," Newark
Mayor Cory Booker told CNN's Soledad O'Brien. "You have fall ending, a lot of
loose branches. "The storm itself will be bad, but I worry about the aftermath,
people being caught without power." Along the Jersey shore, storm preparations
included bulldozers shoring up piers with mounds of sand. Worried residents
filled sandbags in case of flooding. "We will be piling up as much sand as
possible along the beachfront," said Frank Ricciotti, Margate, New Jersey,
public works director. "I think the water damage is worse than another type of
damage, and the hardest thing is to stop water, once it starts coming up." With
a national election already under way in many early voting states, Sandy's wrath
also could have a ripple effect on politics. Bad weather in Maryland or
Washington could make it harder for people to get out and cast their ballots at
early voting locations. Early voting kicked off Monday in Washington and will
start Saturday in Maryland. "From Sunday through Wednesday, winds of hurricane
force are expected to lash exposed areas of the Northeast/Mid-Atlantic states,
leading to potentially serious coastal erosion and coastal flooding," the
National Hurricane Center reported. The weather service also warns "the buildup
of tides over multiple tidal cycles should exacerbate the situation." For more
information on the merging storms, check out the CNN.com story here:
BEST OF THE BLOG:
All kinds of good freesurf clips came out of the pros touring Europe last week. Of course you probably saw Gabriel's 6' air on a 2' wave by now. But Julian and Jordy did some damage of their own too. Check out the Clips of the Day on the North County Surf blog. And what's with the war zone going on at Moonlight Beach lately? Get the details on the blog too. And of course a mid-week Surf Check and an in depth THE Surf Report - all of that and more in the blog below!
PIC OF THE WEEK:
An oldie but a good from January 7th, 2003. When solid surf meets a solid offshore wind event, this is what you get in north county San Diego. Kind of like today- but of course today is much smaller and less offshore wind. So not really like today.
Keep Surfing,
Michael W. Glenn
On Point
Lead Singer of Loverboy Cover Band
Cracking a Bottle of Takayama Teriyaki Tonight
