What a wild past 7 days. Started with 100 degree temperatures, offshore winds, fires, and small surf. Now we've got heaps of surf, 65 degree temps, strong SW winds, and a chance of light showers.
We've got a little uptick in the SW today with some background NW windswell for shoulder high sets. Unfortunately, the S winds are howling- again (been 4 straight days now) so whatever fun waves are out there- it's blown to bits.
Tides are a mess today too; 1.5' at sunrise, down to -0.5' at 8am, up to 4.5' late afternoon, and down to 2.5' at sunset. Water temps are finally where they should be in May- 66 degrees.
So what's with all this SW winds lately? Well, we've got a late season storm impacting Northern California this week- actually getting some light snow in Tahoe and Mammoth (better late than never) and the tail end of this system is kicking up our winds down here and bringing in the clouds. That will last through Friday- may even get an odd light shower tomorrow and Thursday down here. By the weekend we should get back to normal with early morning/late night low clouds and fog and mild sunny afternoons with temps near 75. Should be a pleasant Memorial Day weekend.
As far as our surf goes, the cold front will continue to kick up our NW winds in the outer waters and we'll get another shot of NW windswell towards Thursday.
On it's heels for Friday is more SW swell. This will give us more shoulder high sets here and head high sets in the OC.
As our weather cleans up this weekend, we get another shot of NW windswell towards Sunday.
For Memorial Day, we have a good SW setting up that should last a few days into early next week. Look for head high sets here and overhead sets in the OC.
And yes, more NW windswell is forecasted to arrive early next week. All in all, we'll have some alternating NW/SW swells and better weather towards the weekend.
And if you believe the models, we have yet another SW swell trying to form in a few days which would give us more SW swell around June 2nd. And if I was a betting man, I'd say there was NW windswell behind that...
