Ringing in 2013 with great surf!

Happy New Years Eve all…already NYs for some on the East Coast.  We’re looking at a nice day of swell for the Socal coastline.  A new NW will be picking up on NY Day starting with extremely cold waist/chest high surf for the Polar Bear/Dawn Patrol sessions and picking up through the day.  We should see some decent shoulder/HH surf by evening and slightly bigger as things pick up even more through Wednesday.  Look for shoulder/HH Wed morning with HH/OH sets by evening as the swell peaks. Best winter spots will see a bit more size overall as there’s a bit more north in this swell than the last one.  Still plenty of swell for Thurs morning but the swell will fade quickly through the day. Start with the HH/slightly OH stuff and then back down to waist/chest by evening.  A secondary WNW will fill in Friday to bump swell back into the chest/shoulder range and this one will show at more beaches with a bit more west in it.  The weekend looks smaller as that WNW fades…waist/chest Sat and then waist high with occasional chest for the first half of Sun. The good new is that Monday a whole new swath of smaller NWs start to fill in.  Surf jumps Sunday evening and overnight into the chest/shoulder range with potentially HH/OH waves by midmorning.  I’ll keep my eye on this set of NW groundswells that seem to be running back to back and let you know how next week looks.

The BIG CHILL is on this week with some darn cold nighttime temps in the high 30s/low40s greeting the Dawn Patrollers.  Things warm up ever so slowly with sunny clear cool skies and air temps in the low 60s earlier in the week and mid/high 60s for the second half of the week.  Pretty gorgeous all week if you can get past the icy cold morning conditions.  The water temps have dropped a degree or two but it’s not to bad compared to the cooler air temps these days.  We’re also looking at some E/NE breezes in the evening/nighttime (hence the chilly air temps and clear skies) and light west breeze in the afternoon. That basically means awesome weather all week with very little wind and clean surf conditions!  Tides will start to behave themselves after tomorrow with less extreme tides through the daylight hours.  Full high tide late morning with a pretty low tide just after sunset.

Looks like great Green Flash weather so keep your eye out on the sunset!

Have a wonderful New Year everyone.  Let it be safe, healthy and full of wonderful family and friends…and butt load of killer surf!  And don’t forget to be kind to Mother Earth!  Live Aloha and live green!

That’s it for this year!

Mish

Ocean Notes:

Closing the year with some big clean Mavs .  Nothing like surfing in 52 degree water with clean 20’ surf and your good friends.

 

Forces of nature sending a message...December 30, 2012

Tides for La Jolla (Scripps Institution Wharf) starting with January 1, 2013.

www.saltwatertides.com

Day        High      Tide  Height   Sunrise    Moon  Time      % Moon

           /Low      Time    Feet    Sunset                    Visible

Tu   1      Low   4:41 AM     2.1   6:52 AM     Set  9:20 AM      89

     1     High  10:39 AM     4.9   4:54 PM    Rise  9:14 PM

     1      Low   5:34 PM     0.0

W    2     High  12:19 AM     4.0   6:52 AM     Set  9:54 AM      82

     2      Low   5:36 AM     2.2   4:55 PM    Rise 10:13 PM

     2     High  11:22 AM     4.3

     2      Low   6:10 PM     0.4

Th   3     High   1:05 AM     4.1   6:52 AM     Set 10:27 AM      73

     3      Low   6:49 AM     2.2   4:56 PM    Rise 11:13 PM

     3     High  12:19 PM     3.8

     3      Low   6:52 PM     0.9

F    4     High   1:58 AM     4.3   6:52 AM     Set 11:02 AM      64

     4      Low   8:21 AM     1.9   4:56 PM

     4     High   1:44 PM     3.2

     4      Low   7:44 PM     1.3

Sa   5     High   2:56 AM     4.6   6:52 AM    Rise 12:15 AM      53

     5      Low   9:53 AM     1.5   4:57 PM     Set 11:40 AM

     5     High   3:33 PM     2.9

     5      Low   8:50 PM     1.6