Super steep S on the way!

Looks like that new and super steep SW filling in for Thursday.   The swell is pretty steep so most of SD County will stay in the wait to chest high range for the next 3 days but the better summer spots and breaks in the north end of North County will definitely see some larger shoulder/HH waves with OH surf not out of the question.  Thursday will start off slow as that swell begins to fill in.  Expect waist high with inconsistent chest high sets by nightfall.  Friday we’ll see waist/chest around most of town and those HH/OH waves at the good summer spots as some of that South wraps into our beaches.  The swell will fade some on Saturday with plenty of fun surf still but less of it at the non-south facing spots.  Sunday we’ll see a new SW groundswell swell move into town.  Much better angle on this one for more of San Diego with inconsistent chest/shoulder high waves by morning.  This swell’s a quick on so by Monday we’re looking at slightly smaller waves and some WNW windswell putting a little bump on it.  There’s still more fading SW for Tuesday with that WNW on top of it.  The waves really taper off in size through Wednesday with thigh/waist high surf for a few days.  It looks like we might have a really nice SW groundswell in the making for the end of next week starting Thursday.  Good angle too if the forecasted swell holds its course!  Stay tuned!

More funky weather as the latest subtropical moisture sticks around for another day bringing local showers…yes, showers around town and more low cloud cover for Thursday.  Friday and the weekend it looks like we’ll have morning patchy fog clearing to mostly sunny by midday.  Light south winds becoming west in the afternoon. Air temps in the high 60s/low 70s with a little warming for Sunday and Monday.  Water temps are in the high 60s and low 70s…a little cool for the dawn patrol with those S winds but nice if the sun peeks out midday!  We’re coming off the New Moon so we’ll see pretty low tides for the early morning sessions and a medium high midday and back to a medium low in the late evening before going back high overnight.  With that S swell filling in it should make for some nice morning sessions as that tide fills back in.

Looks like some fun surf but definitely at the more southerly facing spots!

Stay wet San Diego!

Mish

Ocean notes:

1)       We’ve all got the travel bug and dream of tropical water and glassy clean waves but who’s got the dough these days?  Here’s a great article for surf travel on a budget from our pals at Surfer Mag.

2)      The last good SW swells up here have morphed into massive wave generating machines down south in Peru and Chile…check out the pics!

3)      If you haven’t heard…handplaning is the newest (or oldest) cool thing to do in the ocean this summer!  

4)      And last but not least…some great GoPro footage of some smoking Raglan barrels.  I could watch this over and over again…it’s the stuff sweet dreams are made of!

Tides for La Jolla (Scripps Institution Wharf) starting with July 11, 2013.

www.saltwatertides.com

Day        High      Tide  Height   Sunrise    Moon  Time      % Moon

           /Low      Time    Feet    Sunset                    Visible

Th  11      Low   5:47 AM    -0.1   5:50 AM    Rise  8:59 AM      5

    11     High  12:22 PM     4.0   7:59 PM     Set  9:57 PM

    11      Low   5:32 PM     2.1

    11     High  11:30 PM     5.0

F   12      Low   6:18 AM     0.2   5:50 AM    Rise  9:55 AM      11

    12     High  12:57 PM     4.1   7:59 PM     Set 10:30 PM

    12      Low   6:20 PM     2.1

Sa  13     High  12:09 AM     4.5   5:51 AM    Rise 10:52 AM      18

    13      Low   6:50 AM     0.6   7:59 PM     Set 11:03 PM

    13     High   1:37 PM     4.3

    13      Low   7:21 PM     2.2

Su  14     High  12:57 AM     4.0   5:51 AM    Rise 11:50 AM      26

    14      Low   7:25 AM     1.0   7:58 PM     Set 11:38 PM

    14     High   2:23 PM     4.4

    14      Low   8:39 PM     2.0

M   15     High   2:05 AM     3.5   5:52 AM    Rise 12:49 PM      36

    15      Low   8:07 AM     1.4   7:58 PM

    15     High   3:17 PM     4.7

    15      Low  10:08 PM     1.7