THE Surf Report

Making My Job Easy.

SURF:

Little bit of surf. 70 degree water. Plenty of sunshine. Mild air temps. Mellow winds. This Surf Report thing is a breeze. 

Nothing out of the ordinary the past week (and the same can be said for the near future) is making my job easy-peasy, lemon-squeezy. New little SW filled in yesterday for waist high+ surf with chest high waves in the OC. A typical afternoon NW sea breeze has kept water temps near 70. And a lack of monsoon moisture from the S is making us cloud free. 

For the weekend, we've got more waist high SW with a slightly bigger set in the OC. If you don't have a groveler in your quiver yet, support your local surf shop this weekend. And here's the tides, sun, and water temps for the next few days:

• Sunrise and sunset:
• 6:21 AM sunrise
• 7:18 PM sunset
• And daylight saving doesn't end until November 7 so there's still plenty of time to surf after work/school.

• NW winds the past few days have put a halt to our rising water temps, but we still are holding in the high 60's. 

• Even the tides are ho-hum this weekend:
• 2' at sunrise
• 4.5' after lunch
• 1.5' in the evening

FORECAST:

Good news and bad news. What do you want to hear first? Get the bad news out of the way? Ok. Looks like next week is pretty small. Good news? 

A moderate storm is forming off Antarctica today which will send us waist to chest high SW for Labor Day weekend. The storm is unfortunately moving E to W instead of ideally S to N, but it's at least big enough to send us some fun surf. 

And for those of you wondering about Hurricane Nora which formed off Mainland Mexico today, she's looking to be a dud for us and trouble for Cabo. Nora is forecasted to head into Cabo as a category 1 with winds of 80 mph. No surf for us and a mess for Baja Sur. 

WEATHER:

If the surf doesn't excite you this weekend, then head to the mountains on Sunday as monsoon moisture will return. Temps look to be about the same most of next week with high 70's along the coast, high 80's inland, and 110 in the deserts. And if Nora stays on her northward track and into Baja the next few days, she may break apart and send us more monsoon moisture. So until then, expect typical late summer weather around here. If anything changes between now and then, make sure to click on North County Surf on Twitter!

BEST BET:

Labor Day weekend. You deserve it. 

NEWS OF THE WEEK:

As you read in THE Surf Report last month, Death Valley unofficially hit 131 degrees- arguably the hottest temperature ever recorded on earth. But what about the rest of the planet in July? Was it also hotter than heck? The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has the answer and you're not going to like it: July 2021 has earned the unenviable distinction as the world’s hottest month EVER recorded, according to new global data released today by NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information. 

“In this case, first place is the worst place to be,” said NOAA Administrator Rick Spinrad, Ph.D. “July is typically the world’s warmest month of the year, but July 2021 outdid itself as the hottest July and month ever recorded. This new record adds to the disturbing and disruptive path that climate change has set for the globe.”

July 2021 by the numbers

• Around the globe: the combined land and ocean-surface temperature was 1.67 degrees F (0.93 of a degree C) above the 20th-century average of 60.4 degrees F (15.8 degrees C), making it the hottest July since records began 142 years ago. It was 0.02 of a degree F (0.01 of a degree C) higher than the previous record set in July 2016, which was then tied in 2019 and 2020.
• The Northern Hemisphere: the land-surface only temperature was the highest ever recorded for July, at an unprecedented 2.77 degrees F (1.54 degrees C) above average, surpassing the previous record set in 2012.
• Regional records: Asia had its hottest July on record, besting the previous record set in 2010; Europe had its second-hottest July on record—tying with July 2010 and trailing behind July 2018; and North America, South America, Africa and Oceania all had a top-10 warmest July.

Extreme heat and global climate change

With last month’s data, it remains very likely that 2021 will rank among the world’s 10-warmest years on record, according to NCEI's Global Annual Temperature Rankings Outlook. Extreme heat detailed in NOAA’s monthly NCEI reports is also a reflection of the long-term changes outlined in a major report released this week by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. 

“Scientists from across the globe delivered the most up-to-date assessment of the ways in which the climate is changing," Spinrad said in a statement. “It is a sobering IPCC report that finds that human influence is, unequivocally, causing climate change, and it confirms the impacts are widespread and rapidly intensifying.”

Other notable highlights from NOAA’s July global climate report

• Sea ice coverage varied by hemisphere: The Arctic sea ice coverage (extent) for July 2021 was the fourth-smallest for July in the 43-year record, according to analysis by the National Snow and Ice Data Center. Only July 2012, 2019 and 2020 had a smaller sea ice extent. Antarctic sea ice extent was above average in July — the largest July sea ice extent since 2015 and the eighth highest on record.

• The tropics were busier than average: In the Atlantic basin, the season’s earliest fifth-named storm, Elsa, formed on July 1. The Eastern North and Western Pacific basins each logged three named storms. Overall, global tropical cyclone activity this year so far (through July) has been above-normal for the number of named storms.

PIC OF THE WEEK:

Another vacation pic from a 'friend', shot with his drone. Shouldn't 'friends' though invite you on the trip in the first place, not send you a digital postcard?! Not like I'm going to expose this secret spot in Guatemala that can be found at 13°54'57.7"N 90°35'15.9"W. I wouldn't do that to my 'friend'. 

Keep Surfing, 
Michael W. Glenn
Devastatingly Handsome
I'm Not Bitter
'78 Men's Open Champ, Big Surf, Tempe, AZ