Short on time and not much to talk about.
SURF:
Hello fellow surfers! Hope you surfed your brains out last weekend. Because as it stands now, it's looking small for the near future.
Tropical Storm Cristina formed off Baja a few days ago, never hit hurricane status unfortunately, and then decided to move WNW away from us. What does that mean? Waist high surf for us on Sunday and maybe the odd chest high set in the OC. As far as the sun/water temps/tides go, here's what you need to know:
- Sunrise and sunset:
- 5:50 AM sunrise
- 7:59 PM sunset (not even 8 PM anymore. Bummer!)
- A little heat wave, mid-July, and lack of strong NW winds have resulted in water temps in the low 70's (with Scripps hitting almost 76 today)!
- And the tides, like the surf, are pretty boring this weekend:
- 2' at sunrise
- 1' mid-morning
- 4' mid-afternoon
- 3' at sunset
FORECAST:
After a small weekend of surf, we have more of the same to start the week. Just waist high+ background SW groundswell and NW windswell. And the 2nd half of next week? Waist high at best. And after that? Just as small.
Charts though show a small storm forming off New Zealand this weekend which may give us chest high sets around the 19th. Our best hope is a hurricane to form off Mexico but we're expected to have a slow season of course, so don't count on it. Make sure to check out Twitter/North County Surf if anything changes between now and then.
BEST BET:
Sunday with small Cristina swell or Monday/Tuesday with small background SW/NW.
WEATHER:
Great July weather is on tap this weekend once the low clouds burn off in the AM. Temps at the coast will hit the high 70's and our friends in Death Valley are looking at 124. Ouch. Or head up Mt. Whitney though where temps will be 80 degrees cooler at 44 degrees in the AM. The heat will start to subside by mid-week with temps back to the mid-70's at the beaches.
NEWS OF THE WEEK:
While we wait for exciting waves and weather to return, here's some moments from our meteorological history!
- 1999: Heavy thunderstorms hit the mountains and deserts each day starting on 7/11 and ending on 7/13. Rainfall rates included 1.65 inches in less than 30 minutes at Lake Henshaw, 1.57 inches in 20 minutes at Big Bear City, 1.4 inches in 30 minutes at Sugarloaf, 1.6 inches in 85 minutes at Forest Falls, one inch in one hour at Pine Cove, one inch in 25 minutes at Shelter Valley. One inch per hour rain rate occurred at Phelan. Two were killed and dozens were injured. Six homes were destroyed and many more were damaged. A twenty foot high wall of water, moving at 45 mph, moved 70-ton boulders at Forest Falls. Buildings washed away at Jenks Lake. Disastrous flooding and mud slides occurred at Oak Glen, Big Bear City, and Apple Valley. Flooding hit the Yucca Valley area, Beaumont area and Palm Springs. Roadways were closed due to flash flooding. On this day a tornado hit six miles east of Julian in Shelter Valley, although recorded wind speeds nearby were 43 mph. Building and structure damage occurred, trees were uprooted and knocked over. On this day 0.98 inch of rain fell in Victorville, the greatest daily amount on record for July.
- 1968: The minimum temperature was 90° in Borrego Springs, the highest minimum temperature on record. This also occurred on 7/11/2002.
- 1961: Afternoon thunderstorms rolled through Orange and L.A. Counties. A fisherman was killed by a lightning strike at Redondo Beach. Other lightning strikes knocked out transformers, took the police radio off the air, and ignited several fires. In the Antelope Valley, a funnel cloud was spotted by a pilot near Pearblossom.
- 1957: A heavy thunderstorm struck Redlands with one inch of rainfall in 30 minutes. Lightning, hail and “winds, which blew alternately from every point of the compass” accompanied the storm. Within 10 minutes streets were flooded in Redlands. One girl drowned while swept nearly a mile down a storm drain.
- 1954: Heavy thunderstorms struck the Morongo Basin. Flash floods hit Morongo Valley, Yucca Valley and Twentynine Palms. Numerous roads were severely damaged and closed. Some roads were left covered in sand and mud.
PIC OF THE WEEK:
Reason #4,352 that friends aren't really your 'friends'. Got this image from a buddy last week. "Wish you were here." Thanks. Me too.
Keep Surfing,
Michael W. Glenn
Certified
Hope I'm Kanye's Choice For VP!
Don't Like To Brag About How Radical A Surfer I Am
