Christmas has come early this week. Great weather and a fun NW swell lighting up the beaches. Forgot the Xbox One! I want surf!
After the stormsurf last week, conditions cleaned up and a new NW filled in late Sunday night. We had overhead sets yesterday in south SD and shoulder high waves in north county SD. Today we still had some chest high waves in north county SD and south SD had head high waves. Look for the NW to drop further tomorrow and into Thursday morning.
Water temps are holding at 60 and the tides are pretty mellow- about 2' at sunrise, up to 3.5' after lunch, and down to 2' again at sunset.
As far as our weather goes, it's a typical Southern California Christmas. Sunny skies, clean conditions, and beach temps in the mid-70's. I can't remember the last time we had a White Christmas around here (i.e. rain). Models today show a storm in the Aleutians trying to gain strength but our high pressure will probably push it into the northwest this weekend- so maybe at best we'll get clouds or sprinkles towards Sunday. But no real rain in sight.
And our surf drought on Wednesday/Thursday won't last long. We have a couple storms on the charts today. Nothing significant but fun chest high+ NW (with SD getting head high+ waves again) should return late Thursday into Friday. We then get a back up NW swell for Saturday afternoon. And our good weather continues of course.
And charts show yet another storm trying to take shape off Japan later this week. If it holds, we'll get more fun chest high+ NW swell towards New Year's eve. A good way to kick off 2014!
