Have a little NW windswell in the water this morning. Waist high waves can be found with the odd chest high sets at the best spots as well as SD.
That's been pretty much it the past week- just some NW windswell without much size. At least our weather is better today as sunny skies prevail and winds are calm.
Only real excitement out there is the tides. About 6' at sunrise, dropping like a rock to -1' mid-afternoon, and up slightly to 2' at sunset. And with the lack of storms this past month and their subsequent NW winds, there hasn't been much upwelling and the water temps are a pleasant 60 degrees.
As far as our weather is concerned, high pressure is still in control. There are some storms out in the Pacific though and every few days a little pulse of energy will erode the high pressure. For us in southern California, we should have nice weather through Friday as the low clouds and fog try to thicken. By the weekend we'll be a little cooler with a more persistent marine layer. By the middle of next week, high pressure hopefully will have eroded enough to let some storms in and we'll get a shot of showers again.
As far as our surf goes, each one of those little pulses mentioned above will send us shots of surf. After the NW windswell winds down tomorrow, we get another shot of NW groundswell on Friday and another one on Sunday. Nothing big but the weekend should have chest high waves around here and slightly bigger in SD.
As high pressure continues to erode and the storm track lowers to our level, we'll get bigger NW swells. A new groundswell will fill in on Monday for head high sets here and overhead sets in SD.
And charts show more NW swells taking shape next week which would possibly give us fun NW towards the middle of next week as well as next weekend. But they'll also erode the high pressure so these 2 new swells may bring showers and junky conditions with them. Either way, it would be good to see some surf around here again.
