Monday, June 24, 2013

New swells, funky weather then SoCal sunshine!



Hellooooooooooo SoCal!  As small as it was today around town it looks like things will change in the next 24 hours.  Tuesday looks to start with super small surf…ankle high to flat.  Then a new SW will start to fill in through the day.  Of course it’ll be super inconsistent for most of the afternoon with sets starting to come in in the waist high range by the end of the day.  Weather will also be a bit messy with W winds.  See the weather forecast below for details.  Wednesday is when we’ll see a bit more surf from the SW groundswell in the waist/chest high range.  Consistency will still be an issue but will improve throughout the day.  Interestingly we’ll also see the start of a late or early season NW groundswell.  The North Pacific is oddly active (just ask the folks in NorCal who busted out their umbrellas today!) and has thrown some surf our way.  The W and N facing breaks look to pick up some waist to chest high surf.  There’s also a tropical storm Cosme that looks like it will become a hurricane but it looks like the direction will be more westerly than northerly sending energy out to the middle of the Pacific instead of up our way.  We might have some background swell but I think it’ll be too steep and in the wrong direction.   Thursday the SW groundswell peaks early morning with chest/shoulder high sets and some HH+ sets at the better summer spots.  Friday the swell fades a little to start the day with more chest/shoulder high surf but tapers through the day.  Saturday morning looks like waist/chest high surf with perhaps some lingering swell from Cosme.  Then it looks like surf drops off for the weekend.  Surf drops to waist high with some more localized WNW wind swell.  That sticks around for the start of the next work week before the next SW swell shows up.  Looks like some activity brewing in the Southern Hemi so hopefully it’ll throw some action our way.

The weather is pretty funky for the next few days.  The low pressure system that’s sending rain to NorCal is sending possible drizzles our way for Tuesday morning.  Light winds give away to some gusty west winds by midday and carry on through the night.  Air temps in the high 60s.   Things calm down for Thursday with a bit more sunshine by late morning, lighter winds, and air temps in the low/mid 70s along the coast.  The weekend looks pretty nice with some early AM clouds but clearing to sunshine and warm air temps in the high 70s.  That pattern holds through the first part of next week.   We’re coming off the Super Duper Full Moon and seeing a negative low for the dawn patrol but moving up to just a medium high midday/early afternoon then back down to a medium low in the early evening.  Water temps are holding in the mid/high 60s.

Looks like Thursday might be the day that conditions and swell line up for fun cleaner conditions.

Stay wet SoCal!
Mish

Tides for La Jolla (Scripps Institution Wharf) starting with June 25, 2013.

Day        High      Tide  Height   Sunrise    Moon  Time      % Moon
           /Low      Time    Feet    Sunset                    Visible

Tu  25      Low   5:30 AM    -1.6   5:42 AM     Set  8:19 AM      97
    25     High  12:01 PM     4.4   8:01 PM    Rise 10:01 PM
    25      Low   5:10 PM     1.6
    25     High  11:22 PM     6.2

W   26      Low   6:16 AM    -1.2   5:43 AM     Set  9:27 AM      91
    26     High  12:51 PM     4.5   8:01 PM    Rise 10:42 PM
    26      Low   6:09 PM     1.7

Th  27     High  12:14 AM     5.5   5:43 AM     Set 10:33 AM      83
    27      Low   7:03 AM    -0.6   8:01 PM    Rise 11:20 PM
    27     High   1:44 PM     4.6
    27      Low   7:17 PM     1.8

F   28     High   1:12 AM     4.8   5:43 AM     Set 11:35 AM      74
    28      Low   7:52 AM     0.0   8:01 PM    Rise 11:55 PM
    28     High   2:39 PM     4.7
    28      Low   8:35 PM     1.8

Sa  29     High   2:20 AM     4.0   5:44 AM     Set 12:36 PM      64
    29      Low   8:43 AM     0.7   8:01 PM
    29     High   3:38 PM     4.8
    29      Low  10:05 PM     1.7

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