THE Surf Report- Early Edition

It's here!

SURF:
Had a little NW/SW combo earlier in the week and partly sunny skies. Wind was problematic as it was mostly WSW and blew early. The last couple days this same wind has knocked down our water temps a few degrees to 66 and kept the coast cloudy. That doesn't change this weekend unfortunately.

To make up for the inconvenience, we finally had that much hyped SW swell arrive this morning. Sets tonight are a few feet overhead and it's pretty walled due to the lack of NW swell to cross it up. Look for the swell to peak late tonight/early tomorrow with more overhead++ sets and lined up conditions. There's more good surf on Saturday and by Sunday the swell has backed off but there's still head high sets and the OC has the occasional overhead set still.

Charts show a little NW windswell/groundswell showing up Sunday afternoon so once the SW starts to back off and the NW starts to pick up- beach breaks may finally have some peaks.

Tides the next few days are 0' at sunrise, up to 4' at 10am, down to 1' at 3pm, and back up to 5' at sunset.  Make sure to keep up to date on the waves/weather at Twitter/North County Surf. 

FORECAST:

After a solid dose of SW swell this weekend and June Gloom, we're left with chest high SW on Monday with waist high+ NW and yes, more cloudy conditions. We had a small storm in the southern hemisphere a few days ago that will send us some chest high sets towards the middle of next week but it's not all that exciting.

After that the southern hemisphere takes a breather and we don't have any real swells headed our way from that part of the world.

Models show some more NW windswell trying to form late in the week so we may have some chest high sets towards SD next weekend but that's about it. Pretty quiet around here for the next 7 days it looks like.

WEATHER:

I don't know if June could be more typical right now. We have high pressure trying to assert itself over the interior western states as summer approaches but it's trapping the low clouds at our coast while low pressure sits just offshore. So the deserts will be 110 this weekend while the beaches struggle to hit the high 60's, we're cloudy, and we have WSW wind all day. Models show this scenario all next week too. Can't wait for August.

BEST BET:
Peaking big SW swell tomorrow and small surf next week; I think Friday is the obvious choice.

NEWS OF THE WEEK:

Since June Gloom has to be the most boring thing on earth (next to Ryan Seacrest), I give you the excitement of real weather: This Day in Weather History!:

1998: Two funnel clouds were observed off Dana Point.

1997: A tornado touched down in the high desert near Hesperia.

1993: Big Bear recorded its latest measurable snowfall of the season on record with 0.5 inch. 1.42 inches of rain fell at Palomar Mountain and 0.64 inch fell in Victorville, each the greatest daily amount on record for June.

1987: Rare June thunderstorms hit the LA region and Mojave Desert on June 5th and 6th. A severe thunderstorm hit Palmdale and Lancaster. One inch diameter hail hit Mt. Pinos in northern LA County, 0.75 inch hail hit Palmdale, 0.5 inch hail hit Pine Mountain near the LA-Kern county line. Lightning struck the Santa Monica Bay. Power was knocked out. Lightning sparked small fires. In Lancaster, mobile homes were damaged by strong winds (possible tornado?) and lightning. Two-by-fours were driven into the roofs of mobile homes. Utility poles were uprooted and broken in half. More than 500,000 were left without power.

1972: The Padres’ home game against the Pittsburgh Pirates was rained out at (then) San Diego Stadium. This also occurred the next day on 6.6.1972.

1934: 0.29 inch of rain fell in San Diego, the greatest daily amount for June on record. 0.38 inch fell on 6.5 and on this day, the greatest 24-hour amount on record for June..

BEST OF THE BLOG:

The North County Surf blog did a story last summer about all the odd critters floating around in our waters. Everything from Killer Whales, Great Whites, and swarms of jellyfish. I thought we were done- until earlier this week a world record shark was caught off Huntington Beach. So big in fact they had to tow it home on a boat trailer. Imagine seeing that going down the 405 freeway during rush hour?! Check the full story plus the mid-week Surf Check AND an in-depth THE Surf Report. All of that and more at in the blog below!

PIC OF THE WEEK:

Had a buddy go down to mainland Mexico yesterday to score some waves. We've got good waves up here though- not sure why he left. Other than the fact he's surfing some point break instead of walled waves like us. Well, the water's tropical down there and not 66 like here. Seems as though it's sunny down there this time of year while we're stuck in June Gloom. And of course he's surfing some empty secret spot while I battle a bunch of goons at my local break. On second thought, scratch my question from the record.

Keep Surfing,

Michael W. Glenn
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