Tuesday's Surf - Still clean but getting smaller

Tuesday will be surfable...but overall the surf will be dropping.

Our mix of WNW swell (280-300) and background SW swell (190-210) will be starting to lose some steam on Tuesday. Most breaks will back down into the waist-chest high range on the bigger sets.

The standout combo breaks, mostly through Orange County and San Diego, will have some chest-shoulder high sets on the lower tides. SD will be quite a bit more consistent than the other areas.



Winds look good too...mostly light offshore through the morning, even moderately offshore for areas near passes and canyons (you know those places that catch on fire and burn like it is going out of style). Afternoon winds are going to be light...slightly onshore but generally below 10 knots.

Now that the tides are starting to even out a touch I wish that we had some more swell to go with the larger surf windows...but as usual it seems like we can barely ever get things to sync up. Which always reminds me of "Friday"

Smokey: "No sugar? Damn. Y'all ain't never got two things that match. Either y'all got Kool-aid, no sugar. Peanut butter, no jelly. Ham, no burger. Daaamn."

Never gets old.

But I digress...anyway it looks like there will be a few playful sets tomorrow if you surf some of the better exposed breaks. It won't be huge, it won't be super consistent, but if you have the right mind and some time to kill it should at least be sort of fun. I wouldn't spend a lot of time driving...if you see a fun wave stop the car and surf.

Here are the tides...try to avoid the peak of the high.

02:17AM LST 3.7' High
06:39AM LST 3.0' Low
12:27PM LST 5.1' High
08:15PM LST -0.1' Low

Tuesday's Surf - Slow fade

Tuesday will be a surf day...but really it will be more of a surf day because it will be clean rather than any sort of significant surf, which is sort of a lame reason.

We will have a mix of S-SW swells (one fading and another holding in the background), and some local WNW windswell. Most spots will continue to see knee-waist high surf with the S-facing combo breaks seeing some bigger chest high sets on the lower tide. Standout S facing surf spots and the good combo breaks in Orange County and San Diego will be a little bigger with mostly waist-chest high waves and a couple of bigger sets sneaking through on the morning tide push.

Winds will be clean again in the morning with mostly light and variable conditions early and then 10-14 knot W winds during the afternoon.

Again I don't think it will be worth traveling very far for surf tomorrow...it just won't be big or good enough to justify the time/gas suck. Personally, no matter what area you live in, you will want to try and hit up the combo beach breaks, particularly ones that have some good sandbars. I would aim for getting on it right at dawn, before the tide gets too low, or wait until a little after 8am when the tide starts to push back in. Boardwise you are going to want your small wave gear...maybe a fun fishy board if you are lighter surfer or a vintage death-log if you are a bigger guy. Not being a small guy I will have to bust out my longboard, which is affectionately known as the "ugly stick". (I will snap a couple of pictures of it tomorrow…)