This may be the quickest Surf Check ever! No real surf out there today- only small background S swell and a touch of NW for knee high+ waves around town. Maybe best S swell spots in the OC will have waist high sets once the tide fills in this morning.
Speaking of the tides, we've got a low tide of 0' at sunrise that hurting whatever small surf is out there. Tide then jumps to 5.5' at lunch, then down to 1' before sunset. Water temps are still a warm 72+ degrees (the Dana Point buoy actually hit 75 last night).
The weather is going to be pleasant the next few days too. The low clouds should break up before lunch and return late night. And air temps will be slightly cooler than they have been- 75 degrees. There's also a threat of thunderstorms in the mountains/deserts and some may drift in to the inland valleys- but we won't have to worry about that.
So what's on the surf forecast front? Nothing! No, seriously- it's looking pretty bleak out there. No real storms the past few days means no real surf for us. Best case is some background S swell towards Thursday but that should only give the OC some waist high waves again. For SD, we've got a tiny NW windswell on the chart above for Thursday also- but the angle is pretty N so south SD may only see some waist high sets out of it. And nothing either from the tropics- which is odd since we're right in the middle of hurricane season AND we have a building El Nino.
Good news is that the southern hemisphere chart above shows a storm forming towards the 27th of August. Bad news is that swell wouldn't show until September 4th. Long story short- don't expect any real surf through at least the weekend.
