Cleaner weather but dirtier water today. The rain continues to fall, the wind has backed off, and we've got a new mix of NW groundswell, short period W swell, and smaller stormsurf SW swell from the winds yesterday. And of course the water is dirty and will be for a few days from the rain runoff.
The waves were off and on the past week with great weather. Today of course we have rainy conditions with better surf in the chest high+ range but it's best to stay out of the water for a few days. Unfortunately, as the water and weather cleans up, our surf will go flat this weekend. Awesome.
Good news is that we have more surf on the charts but it's about a week out. We should get a shot of head high NW swell towards Tuesday and another shot towards Thursday so at least we'll have waves the 2nd half of next week.
So in the meantime, the only real excitement is the weather. Spots in the mountains above L.A. and the OC had up to 6" with more coming today. That's half a foot of water people. Nuts. Down here in SD it's been around 1". Models show another round of rain showing up this afternoon with SD getting up to 1/2" at the coast and the OC beaches getting another 1". Things should start to clear out tomorrow and be nice on Friday/Saturday. Models show a weak trough trying to move through the area on Saturday evening/Sunday morning but we'll only get light showers at best. After that, high pressure sets up next week for nice weather.
Water temps are still in the mid-60's and we're in December! Tides the next few days are all over the place; about 6' at sunrise, down to -1' after lunch, and up to 3' at sunset.
