Been quite the interesting 'winter'. We've only got a few days left and we've had no monster surf, powerful storms, or cold water. What we have had is water temps about 6 degrees warmer than normal (we're sitting at 64 tonight), consistent playful surf, and of course a lack of rain in an El Nino year.
Today pretty much summed up our winter. Fun chest high waves from the SW with a touch of NW, clean conditions with air temps in the mid-70's, and some increasing clouds but no rain.
Speaking of those clouds, we have a weak low pressure system over us tonight that will give the mountains and foothills some showers tomorrow but nothing really for us at the coast. Once that moves through on Thursday, weak high pressure fills in behind it on Friday and we have nice weather again with night and morning low clouds and fog. Temps will be slightly cooler than they have been- just the low 70's.
Tides the next few days are 6' at sunrise, down to -1' late afternoon, and up to 3' at sunset.
Now that we've got that out of the way, today's SW will fill in further tomorrow and peak on Thursday with shoulder high sets. We also have more NW filling in for waist high+ waves. Should be a fun combo swell the 2nd half of this week.
Charts then show more NW headed our way next Tuesday for chest high waves.
Not to be outdone, former tropical cyclone Pam that roared passed Fiji a few days go, is now steamrolling above Antarctica. That storm will send us head high SW around the 24th of March.
Models show it regrouping a few days later and sending us a bigger overhead S swell towards the end of the month. The gift that keeps on giving.
So in a nutshell, more SW is headed our way through the end of March, with a touch of NW, and no rain in sight. Oh- and our water is warmer than normal- but you've known that for about a year now.
