July in Christmas.
SURF:
Having fun yet? Heaps of surf the past week has started to make up for a slow summer/fall. This afternoon we had building NW wind/groundswell for chest high surf. The swell is peaking tonight unfortunately but we'll still have chest high NW in the AM with shoulder high sets. Saturday drops to the waist high range with chest high sets and Sunday looks to be about the same. With that said, make sure to get it tomorrow morning if you can. And here's the tides, sun, and water info:
- Sunrise and sunset:
- 6:46 AM sunrise
- 4:44 PM sunset
- And remember- winter starts Monday, December 21st. So the days will start getting longer!
- Water temps are holding at 60 degrees.
- And tides this weekend are mellower than the King Tides the past few days:
- 3' at sunrise
- 5' at lunch
- 1' at sunset
FORECAST:
After a slow weekend, things kick into gear Christmas week. As an early present, I'll let you flip the switch on the Emergency Boardriding System!
First up is a new chest high+ NW Tuesday afternoon into Wednesday.
Then it's Christmas in July! Or is it July in Christmas? Anyway, a very late season summer-like SW swell took shape off Antarctica today and we'll see chest high sets Xmas Eve. On Christmas morning, we'll see shoulder high+ surf in North County SD and head high+ surf in the OC.
That lasts into next weekend and is joined by a good NW for more head high+ surf. Looking pretty good for the long holiday weekend. Make sure to check out Twitter/North County Surf if anything changes between now and then.
BEST BET:
Fun NW early tomorrow or good SW Xmas or good NW next weekend.
WEATHER:
Still no rain in sight. Which is fine for Christmas in July but not July in Christmas. You may have noticed some clouds this evening but they didn't amount to much. High pressure sets up tomorrow for weak offshore flow, sunny skies, and mild temps through Monday. A cold front is forecasted to move by to the N early next week and we'll just see more clouds down here mid-week. After that the models diverge but most of them show us having sunny skies for Xmas into next weekend. Let's hope 2021 starts off on the right foot with some rain around here.
NEWS OF THE WEEK:
NEWS OF THE WEEK:
If you haven't noticed already, 2020 has been a real doozy to say the least. And that also goes for our lack of rain around here thanks to La Nina. Since January 1st, San Diego has recorded 7.26" of rain, which is 2.16" below average. Most of that fell of course last winter. And since October 1st (the official start to our rainy season) La Nina has been in full swing with SD just receiving a paltry 0.41" of rain; 1.78" below normal. Instead of storms, we've been getting hot, dry Santa Ana winds. We've seen a series of them since October, including two that produced gusts over 90 mph in the local mountains and gusts over 60 mph in the foothills. The storms that have been forming in the Aleutians have been taking aim at British Columbia then dropping down into the Rockies- all but missing us down here.
And the forecast through the end of the year looks to be about the same. So let's dive deeper into the numbers:
- Newport Beach: 0.38" since October 1st; 14% of normal. For comparison's sake, last year at this time they had 3.29" of rain or 120% of normal.
- Oceanside: 0.61" since October 1st; 24% of normal. For comparison's sake, last year at this time they had 4.62" of rain or 185% of normal.
- San Diego: 0.41" since October 1st; 18% of normal. For comparison's sake, last year at this time they had 4.12" of rain or 177% of normal.
Good news? Winter starts on Monday and on average, our rainiest months are January, February, and March. So we have that going for us.
PIC OF THE WEEK:
The locals are so tough at this spot that they gave the WAVE a fat lip.
Keep Surfing,
Michael W. Glenn
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