Surf for Tuesday – another surf day

Tuesday is going to be a surf day.

Our S swell (180-190) will be fading out fast on Tuesday but there will still be plenty of waves showing at the exposed spots. It will be cleanest through the morning so try and get on it early if you can (and that way we can enjoy more green beer in the afternoon/evening).



The average S facing spots will continue to see chest-shoulder high surf on Tuesday. The better exposed areas will have some head high sets (maybe even a few inconsistent bigger ones through the early morning). Look for size and consistency to fade slowly as we head toward the afternoon.

Winds look decent...mostly light and variable to light offshore for the morning with the cleanest conditions hold through LA...and a few patches of light texture in Santa Barbara and San Diego. W winds around 10-14 knots fill in through the afternoon.

Finding waves should be pretty easy tomorrow...If you managed to score some good waves over the last couple of days then go back to those spots. If you didn’t surf, then check the S facing standouts. Orange County and Northern SD will have the biggest and most consistent surf but there will be plenty of fun waves in Southern Ventura and Northern LA County, (which started to work pretty nicely on this swell by Sunday). Like I said you are going to want to be on it early if you are looking for clean conditions...it will start getting bumpy by midday.

Hope you guys have a good St. Patrick’s Day...here are the tides.

Sunrise:
6:35am (civil twilight)

Tides:
01:09AM LDT 4.3 H
09:50AM LDT 0.8 L

Surf for Monday – Me likey S swell!

The S swell (180-190) that peaked over the weekend will continue to hold solid into Monday and mix with a little NW windswell at a few of the better exposed spots. We are going to be losing just a little size and consistency tomorrow but overall there should still be plenty of waves at the exposed spots.


It is like S-swell porn!

Wave heights will continue to hold in the shoulder-head high range at most S-facing spots. The top S spots, mostly in Orange County and North San Diego, will have overhead sets with a few overhead+ sets mixing in.

There is supposed to be a light eddy tomorrow morning with some southerly flow at the more exposed breaks. Right now the forecasts are calling for winds to stay below 8-10 knots for the morning…so there may be some texture but it likely won’t be blown out. Considering how the wind has laid down this evening I think most spots will be pretty rideable tomorrow.

Since there is so much S energy in the water it has stirred up quite a current at the S facing beach breaks…if you plan on surfing in one of those areas expect to be paddling quite a bit. I think that the points/reefs will actually be a better call at this stage of the swell…they will hold wave shape better and set up some longer rides. I would probably only surf the beach breaks if you can’t handle the crowd any more and you just need some space…hopefully the crowd will have backed down from the weekend now that we have had a couple of days of waves (finally).



Here are the tides…

12:25AM LDT 4.6 H
08:15AM LDT 0.7 L
02:46PM LDT 2.5 H
05:57PM LDT 2.3 L

Thursday's Surf - Even more S swell!

The S swell was showing pretty well on Wednesday...but, like I thought, it wasn't that great at the beach breaks...the points and reefs were definitely the call if you didn't mind battling it out with 200 of your closest friends.

Check out the scene at Malibu today...(I screen grabbed this about 4pm).

"got next!"

Anyway Thursday will be a surf day too...

The S swell will continue to hold throughout the day and we may even see an increase of local windswell. I don't think the windswell is going to be able to break up the S swell but it may help a little bit at the better combo breaks.

Average spots will continue to see surf in the chest-shoulder high range with a few head high waves.

Standout S facing breaks, mostly through Orange County and Northern San Diego, will have shoulder-head high surf with a few overhead waves mixing in.

Winds will be ok…mostly light and variable in the morning with building W’erly flow through the afternoon, eventually topping out around 10-12 knots.

Points and Reefs will be the call again on Thursday…maybe a couple of the good sandbars (like the ones near piers and jetties) as well. The more open beach breaks will still have some shape issues…lots of walls and lots of current at times. I am not sure home much this swell is worth driving for anymore…most everyone is on it, which means that most of the good points and reefs will look a lot like that Malibu picture…you will have to weigh your need for quality surf vs. how aggravated a crowd can make you.