Surf for Friday – Not much out there (yet)

Friday is going to be another small day...basically barely rideable for most spots through the morning.

We will have the weak WNW swell that sort of leaked in on Thursday continue into Friday morning and some other background energy (that might be swell...or it could be a boat going by, or a bird landing somewhere, or a whale farting....you sort of get where I am going with this). Check out the CDIP right now...this is almost as bad as December...well at least it is warm out.



Anyway expect knee high surf for average WNW facing spots for the dawn patrol...and then smaller surf as the high tide peaks around midday. Top NW facing spots in San Diego will have some waist-high+ sets on the lower tides in the morning but for the most part will be pretty weak as well.

Winds look good...light and variable to light offshore for the morning and sort of variable to variable onshore through the afternoon. It should stay clean for most spots throughout the day.

I guess my only suggestion for Friday morning is not to get super trigger happy and try and hunt all over for the weekend swell...it won’t be showing, (It isn’t even showing on the outer buoys yet...though it might by later tonight), and driving all over looking for it is just going to be a lesson in frustration and a waste of gas. Save it for the weekend and early next week.

We may see some of the longer-period energy from the new swell hitting up around Santa Barbara and Ventura around sundown...but I am not expecting much size before dark...just a bit of size pickup compared to the morning. I don’t think it will be worth driving very far to check it but if you are in the area it will be at least keeping an eye on it if the afternoon winds don’t get too bad.

Here are the tides...

Fri
12:59AM LST 4.6 H
07:24AM LST 1.5 L
12:45PM LST 3.6 H
07:00PM LST 1.0 L

Surfing on Friday

Friday will be a surf day…and sort of a waiting day as well. We will have waves but it sort of feels like you are stalling for time waiting for the swell and conditions that are expected over the weekend.

On Friday we will have a fun mix of S-SW swell, steep NW energy, and local windswell that will have waves showing at most beaches throughout SoCal. Best spots will likely be breaks that can pick up the combo of swells and handle the higher tide that fills in through midday. Conditions will be clean early in the morning as well…but expect building onshore flow by the afternoon.

Personally I will be heading down to the local combo beach break to see if I can pick off a few during the dawn patrol. I am a little torn if I should bring the longboard…or chance sitting through some small ones on my shortboard. I will probably let the buoys help me decide in the morning…