Have some fun waves out there today- and the sun came out early. Only downer is the reason the sun came out early is because the W wind starting blowing early.
We still have fun chest high SW in the water with a touch of NW to give the sets a couple corners to get into. The OC has shoulder/head high waves. Last week I thought the SW would fill in late Sunday and peak Monday but it wouldn't cooperate and instead filled in late Monday and peaked yesterday. Oh well, can't complain we have waves.
Water is 68 and the tides are 0' at sunrise, up to 4' at 10am, down to 1' mid-afternoon, and back up to 6' at sunset. Wind is blowing 10mph from the W this afternoon.
As far as the weather goes, we haven't had the full blown May Gray/June Gloom yet. The clouds have been stubborn to burn off a couple days last week but it wasn't that cold or windy from the S. Today the sun is out but models show a weak low pressure system passing by to the N this weekend and we'll get more persistent clouds at the coast so we may only have a brief shot of sun in the late afternoons Friday-Sunday. Next week looks to be about the same with air temps around 70.
So when's our next big swell? Well... that may not come until the end of summer the way the ocean has been behaving lately. In the near future, we have some small waist high NW windswell on the charts for Sunday.
We do though have Hurricane Cristina spinning SE of Cabo today with winds around 90mph. Good for them- bad for us- as Cristina is stuck behind the Baja Peninsula and the swell can't make it up here. Just as Cristina moves westward and in to our swell window... she'll die. The OC may get lucky and see some chest high sets from her on Saturday but not so much for SD county.
As far as the southern hemisphere goes, we have a bunch of disorganized junk that may give us a shot at chest high sets towards Monday. But that's not too exciting in my book.
Further out, the models show a small storm trying to form off Antarctica but it's mostly aimed E to W and may not send surf our way. It's still a long way off so I hope something comes of it next week. So in a nutshell: the next 7 days will be pretty boring around here unless Cristina can hold together and get in our swell window in one piece!
