Well wasn't that fun. Some of the best surf I can remember in a looooooong time around here. The weekend had good weather, a SOLID SW swell, some NW to break it up, and warm water (for March) to boot. So much good surf in fact that most everywhere had good waves and spread the crowds out.
Today we still had overhead sets from the SW/NW combo, even though the peak of the SW was a couple days ago. Tomorrow the SW drops further into the chest high range but the NW hangs around and increases towards Thursday as the winds in our outer waters increase.
As the NW increases late Wednesday, some more SW should arrive on our shores from a storm off Antarctica last week. Not as big as the last swell we had, but we'll have more head high waves off the combo swells. That will last into Saturday.
We've got more NW on the charts for Monday that will give north county SD some chest high waves and south county shoulder high waves.
Models then show a small storm forming off New Zealand next week which may give us chest high waves around the 9th of April.
And models also show some NW trying to form in the Aleutians next week also which may meet up with the slow little SW set to arrive at the same time. Nothing as exciting as last weekend but at least we should have more fun surf headed our way.
As far as our weather goes, we're starting to get back on track with spring time weather- meaning more low clouds and fog as well as air temps near 70. We have a weak cold front moving through the Pacific Northwest tomorrow and as it does, it will thicken up our clouds down here. High pressure fills in quickly behind it on Thursday evening and on Friday we have sunny skies and temps back in the high 70's. That's short lived though as another weak front moves through to the north and we get more clouds and cooler temps down here this weekend.
Tides the next few days are 4.5' at sunrise, down to 0' mid-afternoon, and up to 3.5' at sunset. And our water temps are still warm- hovering around 67 degrees. That feels like July! In a nutshell for the upcoming week: normal spring time weather and surf around here.
