In fact, Friday might end up being the cleanest of the week…with a still healthy S swell in the water to boot. So that S swell (180-200) will be holding into early Friday…the periods will be a little shorter so some of the spots that like the long-period Southern Hemis may lose a little pop but everything else should be about the same size.
Look for most S exposed spots to be running in the chest-shoulder high range with a few head high sets sneaking in on the lower tides at spots without too much shadowing. The standout S facing breaks, mostly in OC, will have shoulder-overhead surf with a few of the top spots seeing some bigger sets.
Winds look mostly light in the morning…and the COAMPS is even calling for the eddy circulation to get a little disrupted through the early morning…setting up light/variable to even light NE winds for a few areas. Look for these winds to turn onshore out of the W-SW around 10-12 knots for the afternoon and possibly strengthen a bit more by late in the day.
Again the best call is going to be the points/reefs…there is enough windswell to get a few creases into the beach breaks but there will be plenty of current and a bunch of closeouts on the bigger sets…the points/reefs will just hold the swell better (sort of sucks that Nike has shut down one of the best points in Socal for this swell…). With light winds, a decent S swell, you sort of get to pick your poison tomorrow…summer spots will be the biggest…but if you want something more mellow it should be easy to find as well.
Check out some of the shots that Jason at the Dailybread Blog took this morning…
http://dalybread.blogspot.com/2010/05/wedge-alittle-sloppy.html
And he has some video too…
http://dalybread.blogspot.com/2010/05/wedge-vids-from-this-morning.html
Here are the tides…
05/07/2010 Friday
12:00AM LDT 2.2 L
05:08AM LDT 3.5 H
11:51AM LDT 0.9 L
06:30PM LDT 4.1 H
5 comments:
that dude takes some cool shots, fo sho! but i always ask myself why people surf that wedge crap. i mean, for real, almost every video i ever see is of one big monster close-out that almost nobody ever, EVER makes. plus, they get slammed on the bottom, and risk breaking their neck. what kind of fun is that! no thanks.
Wedge is really bad this time of year, too much sand. Late summer early fall it can get mind alteringly magical and very surfable for a few bunches of crazy fools.
I agree. Nike sucks. They ain't even a surf company. How come everytime that there is a contest at Lowers they end up scoring a swell? I was hoping that with the poor economy that they would stop having all these surf contests but it seems like now they are having more than ever.
Fun day in newport more over head peaks and good conditions, water warming just a tad yaay
"yaay" pretty much sums up my feelings on this hopeful surf summer.
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