Had some fun surf the past few days. Nothing big but the weather has been nice and there's been waves up and down the coast. Today we have a dropping SW swell and holding NW for chest high sets.
Wind is currently blowing 10 mph from the SW and skies are clear and warm. Gotta love fall.
Water temps are holding around 70 and the tides are pretty mellow the next few days; about 2.5' at dawn, up to almost 5' at 2pm, and down to 2' at sunset.
Our weather is going to be off and on the next few days. We've got a storm up north today which will kick up our low clouds and fog down here tomorrow and Thursday. Look for the clouds to hug the coast both days and a chance of drizzle too. Break out the 5/4/3! Nothing that dramatic but air temps will only be in the low 60's and we'll be a little blown out. For Friday through early next week though, high pressure builds again and we've got great weather on tap with temps in the mid-70's.
And the surf goes as the weather goes: We start to get an increase in NW groundswell tomorrow afternoon- just as the weak cold front moves through. Look for chest high+ waves around town and head high sets in south SD. And when the weather cleans up this weekend... the NW will be gone. We do though have a little SW due to arrive around the same time but the NW will be overriding it. Hopefully when the weather cleans up we'll have some waist high sets from the leftover SW on Friday.
Fear not though, as we have another similar sized chest high+ NW on the charts showing up around next Tuesday. Hopefully the weather will cooperate with this one.
And amazingly, the southern hemisphere isn't dead yet. Charts show a good storm trying to get it's act together later this week. If that happens, we should get shoulder high sets in far north county SD towards the 2nd half of next week with head high sets in the OC. All in all some active weather and waves the next 7 days.
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