Funny to think the 2nd half of this week will be the opposite of today. Let's compare and contrast:
-Today: Tiny NW and small SW for waist high sets towards the OC. Cloudy. Cool.
-Thursday: Fun NW and good SW for overhead sets. Sunny. Hot.
Let's start with today. We have a late season storm moving through northern California today where some spots have seen up to 1/2" of rain with a few more showers happening this morning.
For southern California, we're just getting the tail end of the cold front and it's thickened up our low clouds/fog. We should see sun later today as high pressure builds but temps at the beaches may be lucky to hit 70. On the flip side, with such a late season storm, high pressure behind it will be fairly strong. So strong in fact that Death Valley is forecasted to hit 125 degrees by the weekend. Yes you read that correctly. On the coast though, patchy fog may be trapped under the high but we still should get near 80 degrees and have a shot of sun at the beaches.
As far as the surf goes around here, we've had a slow decline the past few days. Today we're left with some small waist high sets from the NW and SW. Along with the overcast conditions, it's not looking that appealing.
Tides are almost back to normal with just the odd -1.5' at sunrise, then up to 4.5' at noon, down to 1.5' at dinner, and up slightly to 3' at sunset. Water temps are still great with readings around 68 in the mornings and almost 70 in the afternoons.
So enough about Death Valley and the small surf today. What's going on the rest of the week? We had a couple storms spinning in the southern hemisphere last week that will send us overhead sets late Thursday into Saturday morning. The storms weren't that strong but they were broad and they were aimed N at us.
And if that wasn't enough, we also had some late season activity in the north Pacific a few days ago that will send a chest high NW our way for Thursday/Friday too.
AND... Tropical Storm Cosme is also spinning off Cabo/Mainland Mex today. Unfortunately this is only forecasted to hit minimal hurricane status (winds peaking tomorrow at 85 mph) AND it's moving away from us in a westerly direction AND if any swell does reach us (meaning the OC) it's just going to get overridden by that fun SW later this week.
After that it's looking pretty quiet late in the weekend and into early next week. Just some small NW windswell is forecasted and the southern hemisphere went radio silent a few days ago. There is another storm on the charts though in the southern hemisphere towards the end of the month but it's almost out of our swell window by the time it's going to form so we may only get a glancing blow towards the 4th of July weekend. So until then, enjoy the NW/SW and great weather later this week!
