Monday, December 31, 2012

Surf Check

Had some fun surf over the holidays so far. Weather has been off and on but nothing too out of control.
Today we have dropping NW groundswell but there's still some shoulder high sets in north county SD and head high sets in south SD. The OC is partially getting blocked by the islands and is around waist high. Weather conditions are great (albeit cold) and there is no wind at this time.
Water temps are a chilly 68 and the tides are 4' at sunrise, 5.5' at 10am, dropping to 0' at sunset.
Our weather the next few days will be great- but on the cold side. High pressure is building and we may get some weak offshore flow Tuesday/Wednesday. Air temps amazingly will be about 40 in the mornings and only low 60's in the afternoon. The weather stays nice until Saturday then models hint at another storm coming through late Sunday.

As far as our surf goes, we have a new NW showing Wednesday morning. Models last week showed this being a solid swell but have since backed off. Good news is that we'll still have some head high+ surf around here and overhead waves in south SD. Just not double overhead as I was hoping! Further out, that storm that may give us rain late next weekend will send us a shot of more NW too. Hopefully we'll see some head high sets again late Sunday.

All in all some more fun surf lined up and good conditions this week. Glad it's a short work week!