THE Surf Report

What's that warm glowing yellow orb in the sky?

SURF:
Been a lot of windy/cloudy conditions lately. Winter won't go away and May Gray is nowhere to be seen. Fortunately for us, there's a break in the action today and we have sunny skies and clean conditions. Get on it! 

We also have new SSW swell in the water along with leftover NW windswell for fun shoulder high surf. For Saturday, nice conditions prevail again, the SSW hangs around, and the NW backs off. Still some fun chest high surf with bigger waves in the OC. For Sunday, this unbelievable pattern of on again/off again cold fronts continues with more clouds, a chance of showers - and yes- wind. The NW windswell will pick up again and make a mess of whatever SSW swell we have left in the water. Long story short, start your Memorial Day Weekend early and get in the water today.  

Tides this weekend are:

• 2' at sunrise
• 0.5' mid-morning
• 3.5' at dinner

Daylight hours this weekend are:

• 5:45 AM sunrise  
• 7:50 PM sunset  

(And for those of you surfing in Vancouver, British Columbia, it's 5:18 AM and 9:01 PM. Holy cow.

And water temps have dipped to 60 degrees from all the NW winds- and 57 degrees in northern OC/LA county (which is the same as San Fran). Awesome! By the way, we won't hit our peak water temps until early to mid-August so don't expect to wear trunks anytime soon.

FORECAST:
After the cold front moves through on Sunday, we have a transition day on Monday with a little bit of wind and more sun. 

We start to see new SW swell arrive later on Monday and peak early Tuesday for more shoulder to head high swell. That holds on Wednesday and drops slightly late in the week. 

On it's heels is more similar sized SW arriving at the end of the month into the 1st of June. After that, things take a breather and the N & S Pacific look pretty small. Just in time for June Gloom! Make sure to keep track of the waves and weather Twitter/North County Surf.

WEATHER:

Winter just won't go away (if you haven't noticed I've been saying that the past 3 weeks). Late season (very late season) cold fronts/low pressure systems have been sweeping through our area and have given us breezy, cloudy, showery conditions. That should have ended back in March and at this point in time, true May Gray should be in control (low clouds/fog hugging our coast all day). Luckily for us, we'll have nice weather today and Saturday before ANOTHER weak front moves through on Sunday to kick up our winds again, make a mess of our surf, and drop unexpected showers on our Memorial Day plans. Early in the week we should clear up with cool sunny conditions before ANOTHER weak front shows up on our forecast models for late next week (no showers thankfully, just clouds). At this point in time, I'm guessing we'll continue to have showers on and off through July 4th (I said that last week too).

BEST BET:
Today with combo swell and nice conditions. Or more SW late Monday into Tuesday (with nice conditions on Tuesday).

NEWS OF THE WEEK:

1 more week until the North County Board Meeting's 5th annual golf tournament benefiting the Challenged Athletes Foundation happens on Friday, May 31st! If you haven't signed up yet, hurry as just a few spots are left and we're destined to sell out again. Cost is $90 and lunch from Frazier Farms is included. On that note, wanted to say thanks to Ian McDaniel at Venture, LLP for being the title sponsor this year again and to Goat Hill Park for hosting. And it couldn't happen without our great community of north county San Diego and everyone who donated their time and products. In particular, a big thanks to:

• Hole sponsors:
• Agency73
• Surfhouse
• C3Bank
• Lohman & Dehner
• Volte Wetsuits
• Wave Soda
• Ian McDaniel, Venture LLP
• Challenged Athletes Foundation
• EPK Collection
• 19Ten & Elm Street Boardshop
• VUGA
• payrollHUB
• TK Pacific Wealth, Inc.
• Plan Design Consultants, Inc
• Suga
• JR Phillips Group, Inc.
• Steve Rude at First Choice Loan Services
• Raffle Prize sponsors:
• Honma Golf
• Straye
• EPK Collection
• Vuori
• Gnarlywood
• Nike
• VUGA
• New Wave
• Vans
• Volte Wetsuits
• Vessel/BLVR
• Priority Public House
• Go Pro
• Leus
• Famous
• Skrewball
• Z Customization
• Evnroll Putters
• Falkner Winery
• Mike Hess Brewing
• Strickly Boarding Company
• Fichter Silva
• Adidas
• Fuzion Payments
• Bank of California
• Swag bag sponsor Reverie Hawkins including:
• D-Fi Packs
• North County Board Meeting
• EPK Collection
• Brixton
• S&A Publishing
• Famous

If you'd like to join us or have any questions about the group, make sure to give me a shout at northcountyboardmeeting@gmail.com. Thanks again and I'll see you next week at Goat Hill Park supporting the Challenged Athletes Foundation! 

PIC OF THE WEEK:

Dare you $10 to duck dive that thing. 

Keep Surfing,

Michael W. Glenn

Your Excellency

Been Known To Paint The Town Red
Last Known Winner of the Duke Kahanamoku Invitational Surfing Championship