Surf for Friday – Adding a touch more size to the forecast

Friday will be another surf day...and I am going to revise my long-range forecast from this morning and add a little bit more size to tomorrow.

I am looking at the buoys this afternoon and it looks like the tropical swell from Ignacio is coming in a little bigger than I was thinking...not a ton...but enough that I think that our sizes from Thursday will continue into Friday, particularly at the S facing breaks.

So for tomorrow we can expect a mix of slowly fading, but still healthy S swell (180-190), continuing tropical S-SW swell (180-200) from Ignacio, and some very background NW windswell. Check out the current CDIP breakdown...

Santa Barbara


Los Angeles


Orange County


San Diego


Surfwise we can expect the average S-facing spots to be in the chest-shoulder high range. The better S facing spots will be more consistently in the shoulder-head high range on sets. Look for the standouts, mostly through Orange County, to be in the shoulder-overhead range on sets...pretty consistent through the morning.

Winds look good for the early morning...more of the light/variable to light offshore during the dawn patrol. Look for variable onshore texture starting to creep in around midmorning and increasing out of the WNW 10-14 knots by the afternoon.



I think that the S-facing points and reefs are going to be the call again tomorrow. The beach breaks will continue to be a bit walled up...but with the shorter swell periods on the mix of swells I think that they will be a bit more makeable if the sand is good, or they have something to break up the swell. I would try and get on it early again, mostly because of the winds. The tides are a bit funky tomorrow...we don’t see much of a low-tide...so you might want to keep the hunt focused at spots that can handle a little more water.

Here are the tides. Hope you guys score a few...

07:32AM LDT 3.3 H
10:17AM LDT 3.2 L
04:47PM LDT 4.7 H

Saturday Surf Report – Pretty fun this morning

I hope you guys are all out in the water right now and that I am posting this to a bunch of empty computers.

I managed to motivate for a dawn patrol surf (on a weekend no less!) and I just got out of the water…and it was pretty fun and playful. I surfed in the HB area and there were plenty of shoulder-head high sets with a few overhead waves sneaking in now and then. Peaky shape with a few hollow corners on the lower tide. Winds were good with some light offshore flow right when we pulled up.

The S swell is going to hold through the weekend…and even though the tide is coming up and the winds are shifting a bit more to the SSW I still think you will be able to pick off a session before it falls apart too much. Sunday’s conditions were looking a bit iffy the last time I looked at the charts so you might want to roll the dice and hunt down some waves today.

Anyway I hope you guys are getting a few…have a good weekend.