Looks like all the complaining I did in November and December has finally paid off. Great surf the past few weeks along with nice weather has resulted in some great sessions. And crowded as heck line-ups.
Today we have dropping WSW swell (really unique angle for this time of year- usually it's 290-310 degrees from the NW, past few days have been 240-280 degrees which has resulted in some good shape around here). Sets are shoulder high and water temps are holding at 58.
Tides have been pretty mellow the past week- just fluctuating between 1' low tides and 4' high tides. Today it starts to swing pretty wide though with 7' tides at sunrise and -1' tides at 2pm and up to 2' at sunset. Beware the tides! What may look fun when suiting up will change drastically in a couple hours. Case in point- paddling out at 7am you'll see at crazy 7' high tide. When you split at 9am, just two hours later, it's already a medium 4' tide.
As far as our weather goes, no big changes are in store. Just some mellow temps around 70 during the day and low clouds and fog. Models show a couple WEAK cold fronts moving through Thursday night and Sunday night. They MIGHT give us some light showers but nothing important. So our drought continues.
On the surf front, the dropping WSW today is replaced by more NW tomorrow for head high sets and overhead sets in SD. Not too shabby. That lasts into Thursday.
As luck would have it, we have a couple more little bumps from the NW this weekend. Nothing big but chest high waves are in store for Friday and shoulder high sets Saturday afternoon. Not as big as the past week but it will be rideable. And if you head to SD, you'll get it about a foot bigger. So get your work done and sneak out for some surf!
