Tuesday, March 12, 2013

In for a week of small surf...really small.


Aloha fellow surfers!  I hope you’ve enjoyed the past few days of surf because things are going to be kind of small for a while.  We’re looking at knee to waist high waves out of the NW and a little out of the SW next week.  It’ll be a week of small or smaller?  How big a board to you have?  The northern hemisphere is quieting down as we find the southern hemi waking up a bit.  Wednesday through the weekend we’re looking at knee/waist high waves.  Next Tuesday it looks like a small SW swell will show up to give us a little reprieve with some waist high waves at the better summer beaches.  The southern hemi looks like it’s going to throw us a few more bones and hopefully the northern hemi will spit out a few more juicy swells before it’s done for the Winter.  Sorry not much to report…

The good news is that the weather looks like it’s going to be rain-free for at least the next week.  With the cool water and high pressure system keeping the inland air temps warm we’re due for some fairly consistent marine layer this week.  That means fog in the morning and evenings and scattered sunshine midday and into the afternoon.  Morning winds will be out of the NE through the end of the week with afternoon winds turning out of the W.  Weekend looks like we might see a bit more onshore wind earlier in the day.  Tides are coming off the new moon Monday so we’re coming off a negative high tide for the dawn patrol and have a medium high tide in the late morning before going out to a medium low tide in the late afternoon. Luckily with the time change we now have time to surf before the sun sets after work.  Water temps are trying to warm up ever so slightly with the small south swells rolling in.  The last bit of wind cooled them down but with the next set of souths we should see an increase of a few degrees.

Looks like some good clean conditions for logging or SUPping.  Watch out for that fog and don’t get lost!
I’m outta here!
Mish

Ocean Notes:
1)     Kirra =  Kelly and his 52nd career win!  The mags are making us wait for photos and video on this one but the story is here.
 
2)   We can, however, watch the quarter finals and some pretty darn good surfing at Snapper Rock.

3)   Puerto Rico…it’s not just for rum anymore!

Tides for La Jolla (Scripps Institution Wharf) starting with March 13, 2013.
Day        High      Tide  Height   Sunrise    Moon  Time      % Moon
           /Low      Time    Feet    Sunset                    Visible

W   13      Low   4:47 AM    -0.1   7:01 AM    Rise  7:52 AM      1
    13     High  10:56 AM     4.6   6:56 PM     Set  9:07 PM
    13      Low   4:51 PM     0.3
    13     High  11:07 PM     5.2

Th  14      Low   5:27 AM     0.1   7:00 AM    Rise  8:28 AM      4
    14     High  11:36 AM     4.1   6:56 PM     Set 10:04 PM
    14      Low   5:19 PM     0.8
    14     High  11:38 PM     5.0

F   15      Low   6:10 AM     0.3   6:59 AM    Rise  9:06 AM      9
    15     High  12:19 PM     3.6   6:57 PM     Set 11:00 PM
    15      Low   5:46 PM     1.4

Sa  16     High  12:11 AM     4.7   6:57 AM    Rise  9:47 AM      16
    16      Low   6:58 AM     0.7   6:58 PM     Set 11:54 PM
    16     High   1:10 PM     3.0
    16      Low   6:12 PM     1.8

Su  17     High  12:48 AM     4.4   6:56 AM    Rise 10:30 AM      24
    17      Low   7:59 AM     1.0   6:59 PM
    17     High   2:25 PM     2.7
    17      Low   6:37 PM     2.2

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