Fading swells, a little weather and then new WNW!

Jeepers!  We’ve had a nice stretch of surf but things are starting to poop out!  With some lingering NW wind and groundswell and fading SW groundswell it looks like surf is going to be in the waist/chest high range for Monday and taper off into the waist high range for Tues and even less for Wed.  Good news is that we should see a long period WNW groundswell start to fill in late Wed and into Thursday.  The bad news is that some ugly weather might mess it up.  This swell is really aimed a bit south of us (pay attention Islanders!)…of all things…but we’ll still see some waist/chest high surf.  This swell should build Fri and be joined by some straight W swell for surf in the waist/chest high range.  Looks to be a bit closed out around most of SD with so much west in it but we’re not gonna complain about WNW groundswell now are we?  These swells will stick around through next weekend with chest high surf for most of the weekend with the occasional shoulder high stand out set.  There’s not much activity in the S.  A smaller storm looks to peek out from behind New Zealand but at this point the majority of the swell doesn’t look like it’ll produce much as it moves into our window.

Weather is starting to be the attention getter as we move into “rainy season” (yes, technically it’s “rainy season” now!).  With that we actually will have some low pressure moving to SoCal and not only will air temps cool down into the mid to low 60s by the end of the week but there’s increasing clouds and a chance of showers by Wed/Thurs.  This of course also means a fluctuating mess of NW and SW winds over the course of the week.  I’m not expecting anything horrific but just enough to put some junk on the normally clean surface.  Things will warm back up into the high 70s by the first part of next week.  This little system will just remind of what’s in store so we can stop complaining about warm weather.   Water temps are inching down as well with high 60s dominating and the occasional low 70s here and there mostly in the N. County region.  We’re still seeing very little movement in the tides during daylight hours but we’ll start seeing much more movement by Thurs and into the weekend. 

Looks like Monday and Tues and then the weekend will be your best bet for surf.  I’m calling Saturday as the best day of the week at this point.

Stay wet San Diego!

Mish

No Ocean Notes this time sorry!

Tides for La Jolla (Scripps Institution Wharf) starting with October 8, 2012.

www.saltwatertides.com

Day        High      Tide  Height   Sunrise    Moon  Time      % Moon

           /Low      Time    Feet    Sunset                    Visible

M    8     High   6:17 AM     3.5   6:49 AM     Set  1:57 PM      54

     8      Low  10:09 AM     3.3   6:24 PM

     8     High   3:57 PM     4.1

     8      Low  11:23 PM     1.1

Tu   9     High   6:33 AM     3.9   6:49 AM    Rise 12:49 AM      44

     9      Low  11:29 AM     2.8   6:23 PM     Set  2:36 PM

     9     High   5:14 PM     4.3

W   10      Low  12:08 AM     0.8   6:50 AM    Rise  1:47 AM      35

    10     High   6:53 AM     4.2   6:21 PM     Set  3:13 PM

    10      Low  12:21 PM     2.2

    10     High   6:12 PM     4.6

Th  11      Low  12:44 AM     0.6   6:51 AM    Rise  2:46 AM      25

    11     High   7:16 AM     4.7   6:20 PM     Set  3:49 PM

    11      Low   1:03 PM     1.6

    11     High   7:02 PM     4.9

F   12      Low   1:18 AM     0.5   6:52 AM    Rise  3:48 AM      16

    12     High   7:42 AM     5.2   6:19 PM     Set  4:25 PM

    12      Low   1:43 PM     0.9

    12     High   7:47 PM     5.1