Not a bad Christmas day. Line ups are fairly quiet as most everyone is at Grandma's today, we've got a little NW/SW combo, and the weather is mild.
There's some fading NW groundswell from that solid swell over the weekend and some new small building SW swell. Most spots up and down southern California are chest high with best spots in SD still getting shoulder high sets. We also have weak high pressure above us for high clouds streaming overhead and light winds. Not a bad afternoon. Water is holding at 60.
Beware the tides though as we've got a 6' tide around 8am dropping quick to -1' at 3pm.
Tomorrow things change around here as we have a cold front moving through in the afternoon. Look for the morning session to have SE winds then switching to breezy SW winds. Showers will last through much of the day as the NW storm surf picks up to the head high to overhead range in SD. Rainfall totals will generally be under 1/4".
Good weather returns on Friday as the NW backs off. Saturday looks small but then models suggest yet another weak cold front moving our way on Sunday as the NW windswell picks up again for head high sets. Kind of a typical/monotonous winter pattern going on here. All good though- we need the rain and the surf!
Down in the southern hemisphere, the bear is hibernating but tends to get up in the middle of the night and grab a glass of water once in a while. Like the little storm shown on the map above. Nothing impressive but seas in the 25' range if all goes according to plan. If so, we may get a similar sized swell to today's surf (about waist high+) towards the 2nd of January.
Long story short, some more NW windswell headed our way (along with showers) and background SW swell underneath for the near future.
