Thursday, January 30, 2014

Bye bye big surf...hello windswell.



I hope you all had a good time the past few weeks.  We’re on the tail end of all that fun, clean big surf.  Friday will be the very last of it for a while but onshore winds will likely make a mess of things.  Surf starts out in the chest/shoulder high range but gets small pretty quickly...and again…windblown.  By evening the swell will be in the thigh/waist high range with a bit of windswell on top. Saturday we’ll see some shorter period waist high surf out of the WNW.  That small swell peaks late in the day/early evening and fades into Sunday with knee high surf for the second half of the day.  Monday we’ll see some very small windswell as a system moves through SoCal.  Surf in the ankle/thigh high range for the day.  Tuesday we’ll see some small WNW swell and surf will bump back into the waist high range for the day.  Waves back down again on Wednesday with pretty small surf starting about waist high in the morning and ankle high by sundown.  The North Pacific looks pretty quiet after that with no big storm systems in the forecast.  

The weather is looking a bit more like winter with a few small systems making their way onshore.  There’s a slight chance of showers Friday but it’s the wind that’s going to make things messy all day.  Winds blow offshore overnight and into Saturday morning and then onshore in the afternoon.  Look for clouds Friday and a bit more sunshine on Saturday and Sunday.  Then Sunday night and into Monday we’re seeing more clouds again and a slight chance of showers.  I’d say it looks more like south winds blowing, clouds and not much else.    Daytime air temps are a bit more winter-like in the low 60s and high 50s through the next week.  Nighttime temps will be in the mid to high 40s.  With tonight’s new moon we’re looking at extreme tides for the next few days.  The King Tides are giving us a big high tide mid-morning draining out all day to an extremely negative tide later in the afternoon.  Water temps are in the high 50s throughout the county.

Looks like the days of pumping clean swell are over for now but there’s still some small stuff so stay wet San Diego!

Lates!
Mish




Tides for La Jolla (Scripps Institution Wharf) starting with January 31, 2014.
Day        High      Tide  Height   Sunrise    Moon  Time      % Moon
           /Low      Time    Feet    Sunset                    Visible

F   31      Low   2:45 AM     0.7   6:45 AM    Rise  7:03 AM      0
    31     High   9:00 AM     6.5   5:21 PM     Set  6:43 PM
    31      Low   3:40 PM    -1.6
    31     High  10:02 PM     4.9

Sa   1      Low   3:34 AM     0.6   6:44 AM    Rise  7:46 AM      1
     1     High   9:46 AM     6.1   5:22 PM     Set  7:51 PM
     1      Low   4:20 PM    -1.3
     1     High  10:43 PM     5.0

Su   2      Low   4:25 AM     0.6   6:43 AM    Rise  8:26 AM      5
     2     High  10:33 AM     5.4   5:22 PM     Set  8:57 PM
     2      Low   4:59 PM    -0.7
     2     High  11:26 PM     5.0

M    3      Low   5:21 AM     0.8   6:42 AM    Rise  9:04 AM      12
     3     High  11:23 AM     4.7   5:23 PM     Set 10:00 PM
     3      Low   5:40 PM     0.0

Tu   4     High  12:13 AM     4.9   6:42 AM    Rise  9:43 AM      20
     4      Low   6:24 AM     1.1   5:24 PM     Set 11:02 PM
     4     High  12:20 PM     3.9
     4      Low   6:23 PM     0.8

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