Waves for Wednesday – Someone needs to push the reset button…the disk seems to be stuck

Wednesday looks semi-surfable…but there isn’t a lot of swell in the water…so expect to ride a big board and sit around a lot waiting for weak waves.

Our swell mix is a blend of S-SW swells (180-220) and weak local windswell. Most of it barely rideable if it was by itself…but it has just enough energy that when the swell mixes we get a semi-rideable little line.



Make sure to read the rest of the forecast at www.solspot.com (you are going to have to navigate to it yourself this time…I bet you can find it pretty easy).

Waves for Wednesday – Small mix of S-SW swell continues

Wednesday will be surfable…but there isn’t a lot of swell out there, so either plan on bringing some good small-wave gear or a lot of patience.

In the water we are going to have a mix of weak S-SW swells (180-210)…some of which are fading out and another more SW’erly (200-215) that starts to creep up in the background. Local windswell even looks pretty weak…there is some energy in the outer waters but the swell angle is too steep to get much of it to the beach.



Most spots are going to hold around the knee high range on Wednesday…with some knee-thigh high surf setting up at the more SSW-SW facing spots that can pull in a little more of the energy. The standout SSW-SW facing breaks, mostly through South OC and a few select parts of North SD, will be more consistently in the waist-chest high range…with a few inconsistent shoulder high sets slipping through on the lower tides.

Winds look ok for the morning…sort of overcast and clean for most areas…and a little light texture at the really open spots. At this point it looks like variable winds below the 2-3 knot range for the morning with a little more onshore texture showing down near the border. Look for the overcast to take a little longer burning off…but sunny skies and onshore winds will creep in by the afternoon. Expect W-WNW winds around 10-12 knots with some 15-knot gusts hitting the exposed areas by the later afternoon.





Wednesday just sort of feels like your standard summer surf day…nothing to exciting, but not totally flat either…(too bad the water isn’t a bit warmer). I think that our best bet is for a morning surf…if you can really make the dawn patrol (first light is around 5:40am), you can take advantage of the last part of the tide push. Really though I would bring your small-wave boards and try to find a spot that can handle the bit of high-tide that hits around 7am.

Here are the tides…happy hunting…make sure to try HB Pier, I hear the crowd is light there.

08/04/2010 Wednesday
12:05AM LDT 1.1 L
07:10AM LDT 2.8 H
09:22AM LDT 2.7 L
04:47PM LDT 5.1 H

Surf for Monday – Not looking so hot

Monday will have some rideable waves but onshore winds are forecast to blow through the morning and will hamper shape at the more exposed areas.

In the water we will have a mix of S and SW swell (180-215) along with some local NW windswell. None of the swells are particularly strong but there will be some occasionally decent sets at the combo sets.



Wave heights are going be in the knee-high range for most of the average spots…along with some occasional waist high sets at the average S facing spots. The standout S-SW facing spots and excellent combo breaks, mostly in Orange County and parts of San Diego, will have waist-chest high waves with some rare chest-shoulder high sets showing on the lower tides. The swells are a touch shadowed so expect some waiting around between the bigger waves.

Winds aren’t looking very good…there is still a bit of an upper level low-pressure over Northern California that will continue to push some W-WNW winds through Socal. Both the COAMPs and the NOAA models are calling for 4-6 knot W winds for the morning, which isn’t super strong…so there may be a little bit of a window early…but if the onshore flow holds over Sunday night, which there is a chance that it will, then there would be some texture/bump on things early. As usual on these marginal mornings, I recommend getting up and checking the cams or wind stations before driving very far (or at all). Look for building WNW winds around 10-15+ knots for the afternoon.







With the onshore wind forecast to spin up in the morning I am not super excited about Monday’s surf…but I will still give things a quick check since we do have a little bit of swell in the water. If you do have to surf…I would stick with the S facing beaches or the really good combo spots…and bring the small wave gear…just so you can squeeze a few more waves out of the smaller swell mix.

Here are the tides…cross your fingers that the winds stay down.

07/12/2010 Monday
04:40AM LDT -1.4 L
11:01AM LDT 4.1 H
04:02PM LDT 1.7 L
10:04PM LDT 6.6 H