Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Surf Check


Had some small NW and S over the weekend and today we're starting to see signs of our new S swell show up on our beaches.
We've got clean conditions this morning and the new extreme angled S in the water. Spots around town have chest high sets and as you get towards the OC you'll find some head high sets. There's also a tiny NW in the water but it's not doing much to peak up the surf. Best bet is to hit a pier, jetty, reef or point to find some shape. Looks like the S will peak tomorrow with shoulder high sets in north county SD and overhead sets in the OC. Sorry SD- not much surf for you the next few days.
 
Tides the next few days will be about 3' at sunrise, hitting 4' at 9am, dropping to 0' mid afternoon, then up to 5' at sunset. Water temps are holding at 60.
Not much in the weather department for the upcoming week. We have a weak front coming through tomorrow afternoon that MAY give us a shot at showers or maybe even a little thunderstorm but don't hold your breath. After that moves through, we've got weak high pressure setting up for nice weather and beach temps in the 70's. By Sunday there's another weak little cold front coming through and it will give us more low clouds and fog. Nothing exciting- typical spring around here.
As far as the surf goes the next few days, the S swell mentioned above will die out by Friday and there won't be much surf unfortunately for the weekend. Nice weather though. When that weak cold front comes through on Sunday it should kick up a little chest high NW windswell for SD.
As far as the southern hemisphere goes, we had a good storm start spinning down there a couple days ago and we should see some new shoulder high+ SW swell towards next Monday the 28th and peaking on the 29th. Until then, enjoy the S tomorrow and small clean conditions this weekend!