Small but sunny

Don’t hate the messenger but we’re in for a quiet week of surf.  We’re seeing some short period NW wind swell creating some bumps for a waist high ride here and there.  About the same for Thursday and a hiccup of SW swell will show Friday.  SW waves in the waist high range with a slightly bigger wave here and there, inconsistent and peaking Friday late afternoon only to fade out to pretty much nada for the weekend.  The local NW wind swell will keep some super small peelers coming in but they will very tide dependant as we move into the weekend and some more extreme tides.  Monday we might see some more small SW but really inconsistent and maybe not even noticeable until Tuesday and into the 4^th of July holiday.  (YEAH!)  That swell is super steep though so I think San Diego might miss a lot of the “action”.  It looks like some more long period SW swell might be headed our way in about 7-8 days.  I’ll let you know in a few days how those storms/swells are developing.

More sunshine and fairly light winds for the rest of the week and into the weekend.  Thurs and Fri look to be pretty dang hot and sunny actually  (mid/high 70s along the coast) with things cooling off a few degrees for the weekend (low 70s).  We’ll continue to see the patchy morning clouds but they seem to be breaking up pretty early.  Winds are calm in the morning with moderate west winds to cool you off by midday and into the afternoon.  We’ll start to see more tidal movement as we enter the weekend with a medium high in the early morning going out to a low midday and a big high tide push an hour or so before sunset.  Water temps are in the mid-60s…a bubble of warm water in N. County and kinda chilly down south with some upwelling going on south of LJ and even more south of Pt. Loma.

Well, it’s summer time so at least we have some great weather going into July and the short holiday week.  Not great for surf but it’ll happen!

Pray for surf!

Mish

Ocean Notes:

1)       Don’t forget about the Summer Fun on the 101 this Friday and Saturday in Leucadia!  Bands, booths, and…oh yeah, FUN! 

2)      The Thursday after the 4^th of July always finds the local beaches and parks a TOTAL MESS!  You can one or two (or both) things…remind your friends to throw their party goodies in the garbage when they’re done celebrating our country’s independence and/or head to the beach to help with the Surfrider "Stay Classy Not Trashy" beach clean up. 

3)      Cooking up some fresh seafood this summer?  Whether it’s a pan full of scallops or your fresh caught Pacific halibut check out these recipes from some reputable chef’s courtesy of Oceana.

4)      Come August 2^nd there will be a few more heros on the Huntington Beach Surfing Walk of Fame. That includes names like Brewer, Ho, Cairns, Collins and Peterson.  For more details and the lowdown on who the inductees are click here.

5)      With warm weather and small surf this week you might be taking your grom or someone else’s grom out for their first surf session.  Check out what Tom Curran has to say about teaching your kid how to surf.  And don’t forget…there are a plethora of surf schools here in SD County.  And remember…the best surfer in the water is the one…getting barreled!!! (just kidding)…is the one having the most fun!  

6)      (WARNING: Sales pitch)  Need more surf porn in your mailbox each month?  Get Surfer Mag AND Surfing Mag for just $12 a YEAR!  This is one sick offer!  You can barely buy 4 gallons of gasoline to get you to the beach for that much!  And no, I don’t get a free subscription for posting this I’m just trying to save you some dough!

7)      Debbie didn’t do Dallas but she surf did the Gulf Coast!  Check out some sweet pics of the pre-storm swell.  Bet you never thought you’d catch yourself wishing you were in North Carolina.  After this you just might!

Tides for La Jolla (Scripps Institution Wharf) starting with June 28, 2012.

www.saltwatertides.com

Day        High      Tide  Height   Sunrise    Moon  Time      % Moon

           /Low      Time    Feet    Sunset                    Visible

Th  28     High   5:11 AM     3.1   5:43 AM     Set  1:08 AM      58

    28      Low  10:25 AM     1.6   8:01 PM    Rise  2:50 PM

    28     High   5:23 PM     5.4

F   29      Low  12:32 AM     0.4   5:44 AM     Set  1:51 AM      69

    29     High   6:39 AM     3.2   8:01 PM    Rise  3:57 PM

    29      Low  11:30 AM     1.8

    29     High   6:16 PM     5.9

Sa  30      Low   1:29 AM    -0.4   5:44 AM     Set  2:40 AM      79

    30     High   7:49 AM     3.4   8:01 PM    Rise  5:05 PM

    30      Low  12:32 PM     1.8

    30     High   7:08 PM     6.3

Su   1      Low   2:19 AM    -1.0   5:45 AM     Set  3:35 AM      88

     1     High   8:44 AM     3.8   8:01 PM    Rise  6:10 PM

     1      Low   1:29 PM     1.8

     1     High   7:57 PM     6.6

M    2      Low   3:05 AM    -1.4   5:45 AM     Set  4:36 AM      94

     2     High   9:32 AM     4.0   8:01 PM    Rise  7:10 PM

     2      Low   2:22 PM     1.7

     2     High   8:45 PM     6.8