Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Surf Check

Beautiful day out there again. We had some fun leftover waves this morning from the NW- about stomach high- with some chest high sets in SD. The wind is pretty mellow this afternoon from the W at 8.

Tides the next few days are 2' at sunrise, up to 5' mid-morning, and down to 0' late afternoon.
The weather is going to be fantastic the rest of the week as high pressure is in control and the winds will be light. Looks like by Friday we may have temps close to 80 at the beaches- while the water temps still hang at 57 though. Not time for trunks yet.
So what's happening with the surf the next few days? We'll we've got swells from the NW and SW headed our way. Unfortunately the storms in the southern hemisphere haven't been that big nor aimed N at us and the storms in the Aleutians right now have been blocked by our high pressure so we're just getting glancing blows. But with the great weather and a little bit of combo swell, it will be fun nonetheless.
Long story short we had a storm in the southern hemisphere rumble along last week then hiccup and then kept rumbling along. We should start to see some SW fill in tomorrow (best for the OC) with some chest high sets. Then a little more reinforcement towards the 2nd half of this week. Just in time for a little NW swell to show up on Thursday. Look for most spots to be chest high+ and peaky with great weather.
Then by Sunday we get another reinforcement out of the NW for chest high waves in north county SD and some shoulder high sets in SD.
Unfortunately high pressure starts to break down slightly on Sunday evening for a return of low clouds at the coast (no rain in sight though) but we still should have nice seasonal weather. All the while the north Pacific is still looking active and we may get another NW towards the middle of next week while the southern hemisphere works on sending us another SW swell towards next weekend the 9th. Nothing huge from all these storms but at least we should have swells coming from a variety of directions every few days. Not too shabby.