Tuesday, December 17, 2013

More fun surf on the way...but rain first!



Well wasn’t that fun?  I hope everyone got a bit of swell these past few days.  We’ll see the tail end of that WNW and minor SW combo for Wednesday with surf in the waist and occasional chest high range for the morning sessions and waist high by the evening.  Thursday we’re going to see a little foul weather move in and with that we’ll see a fair amount of wind (and some rain) and some waist high wind swell.  More wind swell out of the WNW Friday with size bumping up into the chest/shoulder high range for the day, peaking early and backing off all afternoon.  Winds don’t look favorable but there will be waves!  Saturday size is back down into the waist high range from the left over windswell and although it diminishes through the day we should see some early arrivals from the next NW ground swell. 

This swell looks pretty nice with a few days of sustained size and decent conditions.  Swell start to fill in Sunday morning with super inconsistent waves high waves and chest high sets out of the west.  Size and consistency pick up through the day with chest/shoulder high surf by nightfall and some HeadHigh + sets.  Shoulder high surf at most spots around town for Monday with HH and OverHead sets through the day especially.  Lots of west so direct west facing beaches might be a bit closed out…north and south facing beaches doing a little better with the wrap around.  Tuesday starts off with plenty of surf in the chest/shoulder range with some larger sets and backs off through the day with waist/chest by nightfall.  The good news is that it looks like there’s another storm brewing in the North Pacific so hopefully we should see more good WNW groundswell out of that for the end of that next week.  Keep your fingers crossed!

Weather wise we’re looking at a cooling trend as we head into the end of the week.  Partly sunny skies, air temps in the high 60s and an offshore breeze for Wednesday morning. The Jet Stream is throwing a little system at us that looks to bring some showers late Wednesday and on into Thursday and much cooler air temps in the mid to high 50s.  Not a lot of rain but some funky south winds by Wed afternoon/evening through Thursday and on into Friday.  Onshore winds for most of Friday, picking up Friday evening with some gusty winds that calm a bit for the morning sessions but will still be blowing out of the N/NW before turning offshore again for Saturday.  More sunshine for the weekend and back to our high 60s/low 70s for the rest of next week.  Big tide swings still as we just had the full moon.  Mid-morning big high tide push draining out all day to a late afternoon negative low.  Water temps in the low 60s.

Looks like some fun surf in our future!
Stay Wet San Diego!
Mish


New swell filling in

Amazing sunset

  New swell's arrival...happy surfers!

Tides for La Jolla (Scripps Institution Wharf) starting with December 18, 2013.

www.saltwatertides.com
Day        High      Tide  Height   Sunrise    Moon  Time      % Moon
           /Low      Time    Feet    Sunset                    Visible
 
W   18      Low   2:43 AM     2.0   6:46 AM     Set  7:33 AM      99
    18     High   8:55 AM     5.8   4:46 PM    Rise  6:17 PM
    18      Low   3:57 PM    -0.6
    18     High  10:29 PM     3.8
 
Th  19      Low   3:16 AM     2.1   6:47 AM     Set  8:14 AM      98
    19     High   9:26 AM     5.5   4:46 PM    Rise  7:09 PM
    19      Low   4:29 PM    -0.4
    19     High  11:05 PM     3.8
 
F   20      Low   3:52 AM     2.2   6:47 AM     Set  8:52 AM      94
    20     High   9:58 AM     5.2   4:47 PM    Rise  8:02 PM
    20      Low   5:02 PM    -0.2
    20     High  11:43 PM     3.7
 
Sa  21      Low   4:32 AM     2.4   6:48 AM     Set  9:27 AM      89
    21     High  10:31 AM     4.9   4:47 PM    Rise  8:55 PM
    21      Low   5:36 PM     0.1
 
Su  22     High  12:25 AM     3.8   6:48 AM     Set 10:01 AM      83
    22      Low   5:21 AM     2.5   4:48 PM    Rise  9:49 PM
    22     High  11:08 AM     4.4
    22      Low   6:12 PM     0.5

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