We are going to have a mix of SSW swells, local windswell, and building tropical swell from Hurricane Hernan showing over the next couple of days.
Saturday will be mostly a mix of the SSW energy and local windswell. It will still be playful as the latest SSW'er continues to peak. Most spots will hold in the knee-waist high+ range while the standout S facing breaks see some chest-shoulder high+ faces rolling through at times.
Late in the evening we will start to see some minor SE tropical swell from the first stages of Hernan (back when he was still a tropical depression) start to slowly filter in. I am not expecting much of a change in size but there may be a little more consistency as the energy blends into the mix.
Sunday morning will also be pretty similar to Saturday with lots of waves in the waist-chest high range and the top spots in the chest-shoulder high+ range. The tropical S-SE swell from Hernan will continue to build throughout the day and should start to peak late in the afternoon (and will hold overnight into Monday). There will be some head high (maybe even head high+) waves at the top S-SE hurricane swell spots (mostly North Orange County) as this swell starts to peak.
Winds look very similar to what we have seen over the last couple of days. Mostly light and variable winds in the morning with a few areas that will have some light onshore bump...not enough to blow it out...but expect a little bit of funky chop. Afternoon winds on both Saturday and Sunday will be out of the W-NW around the 10-15 knot range.
I think that the morning session is going to be where it is at this weekend...conditions will be clean, the tides will generally be on the low side, and the full crowd won't have descended on the beach. It does look like it is going to be pretty warm inland over the weekend so expect parking, blackball, and crowd issues as everyone starts looking for the coast to cool them off. I don't think that it will be worth driving very far for surf over the weekend either...try and stick with the fun waves close to home for Sat/Sun...Monday may be worth driving a little further as the hurricane swell hits a bit better.
Finally here is a little view of the current swell mix...it will be like this over the weekend...just a little bigger.
Have a great weekend!
