THE Surf Report- Early Edition

Back to normal.

SURF:

A little bit of everything this past week: Small clean combo surf, big stormy NW swell, and tonight clean new SW swell with a touch of dying NW. Tomorrow we'll have building SW swell, clean conditions and some tiny NW windswell mixed in. Look for shoulder high sets in north county SD Friday from the SW with head high waves in the OC. Just tiny NW again also. Then for Saturday it's peaking SW and not much NW to break up the lines so it may be a little walled.

By Sunday the SW is on it's way down and the NW windswell creeps back up again; most spots should be chest high. All in all some fun SW this weekend and clean conditions.

Water temps have dropped to 66 and tides are 3' at sunrise, up to 5' at 3pm, and down to 3' again at sunset. Make sure to keep up to date on the waves/weather at Twitter/North County Surf.

FORECAST:
Fun swell this weekend will lead to pretty flat conditions next week. Lack of storms = lack of surf.

Charts show a storm trying to take shape tomorrow in the southern hemisphere which may give the OC some chest high sets late next weekend but that's about it.

Hopefully the northern hemisphere will come to life next week and we'll get some NW again.

WEATHER:

Kind of cool to see the wind and rain again around here. Even a stray thunderstorm rolled through Wednesday night. The storm has since departed and weak high pressure is setting up this weekend. Look for sunny skies and temps near 70 at the beaches. High pressure builds slightly further towards the middle of next week and we may be back to the high 70's around here.

BEST BET:
All weekend: Some leftover NW windswell tomorrow with building SW. Or on Saturday better SW but no NW. OR... dying SW on Sunday but building small NW. Place your bets.

NEWS OF THE WEEK:
Now that was a good storm. Considering it's early October AND we didn't get much rain last year, it did a good job of getting us in the mood for the holidays (only 75 more shopping days 'til Xmas)! Now granted, it wasn't a heavy rain producer like an El Nino storm (i.e. 1"+) but it did give us decent totals. Here's some stats from yesterday's storm:

RAIN:
Lake Cuyamaca: 2.58"
Laguna Beach: 0.51"
Carlsbad: 0.27"
Dana Point: 0.27"
Del Mar: 0.25"
Newport Beach: 0.20"
Oceanside: 0.17"
Huntington Beach: 0.15"
San Diego: 0.07"

WIND:
Sky Valley, Coachella Valley: 78mph
Local mountains 45-60mph
Most coastal locations were 20-25mph

It always seems like mid-October when we get our first shot of showers of the season, so we're about a week ahead of schedule. Normal is about 10" for the year and we got less than half of that last year.

BEST OF THE BLOG:

Notice the new radar at Ponto? It reads the ocean conditions and sends out a high pitched siren when a set is approaching. Seriously. And I have some swamp land in Florida I want to sell you. Read the story on the North County Surf blog. And of course a mid-week Surf Check and an in-depth THE Surf Report. All of that and more in the blog below!

PIC OF THE WEEK:

Ever heard the expression 'Corduroy to the horizon'? This is what they mean. Times 10. How many lines can you count in this photo? Correct answer wins a free bar of wax.

Keep Surfing,

Michael W. Glenn
Model. Citizen.
Secretly Miss Baywatch
The Last Wave Warrior