We got surf! But you already knew that. And we've had lots of surf the past month so it shouldn't be a surprise. Am I sounding ungrateful? Just in awe of all the SW and S swells lately AND the great weather AND the warm water temps!
As advertised we had a new SW fill in yesterday from a solid storm in the southern hemisphere last week. Sets around town are head high and towards the OC it's overhead. Make sure to clear your schedule and watch the
Hurley Pro at Trestles today! The swell will hold tomorrow morning then back off Thursday but there will still be fun chest high+ waves.
On the heels of the dying SW on Thursday will be an early season NW groundswell. Nothing big- maybe chest high sets here- but SD should be shoulder high and fun.
And on the 1st day of fall, we get another shot of small NW for waist high waves here and more chest high waves for SD on Monday. Tropical Storm Polo also starts to creep in later in the week...
Speaking of the tropics, Major Hurricane Odile unfortunately tore through Cabo late Sunday night as potentially the strongest hurricane to ever hit the area. Odile is halfway up Baja and winds amazingly are still 60mph- even though it's been over land the past 2 days. We have a weak cold front moving through California later this week and it will steer Odile into Arizona tomorrow. Odile never got into our swell window so we won't see any waves from it. Won't matter though with the solid SW in the water today. As far as Polo goes, models are being conservative and only showing it reach minimal hurricane status in a few days due to some upper level wind shear which will inhibit it's growth. Polo should get in our swell window over the weekend though and maybe we'll see some fun waist-chest high S swell mid-week with the OC getting head high waves.
And the storms keep on rollin'. Out the back is a storm on the charts in the northern hemisphere that should give us good shoulder high sets around the 26th of September with overhead sets in SD. After that, models show another good storm in the southern hemisphere forming and we may get more head high SW at the end of the month.
As far as our great weather goes, we have a couple more days left. Hurricane Odile is moving up the Baja Peninsula but as advertised above, it will be steered into Arizona. We should though get a glancing blow in the mountains and deserts with lots of thunderstorms tomorrow and Thursday with MAYBE a small chance here at the coast. After that, the weather gets back to normal this weekend as a weak low pressure system moves through. We'll have night and morning low clouds/fog again as well as temps in the low 70's.
Our tides are fairly mellow the next few days- about 3' at sunrise, up to 5' late in the afternoon, and down to 3' at sunset. Water temps are also holding at a fantastic 73-75 degrees. All in all some great waves/weather today, hopefully some Polo swell next week, and a return to fall with cooler temps and NW swells!
