Thursday, March 6, 2014

Winter's not over...more fun surf!



Well THAT was fun! I hope everyone survived the MASSIVE waves we had last weekend.  There’s more where that came from. Plenty more swell on the way for the next week.  Chest/shoulder high waves out of the WNW on tap for the Friday morning session.  Surf should start picking up too so there might be some HH sets…even slightly bigger in the southern half of the region.  A new WNW is filling in so by midday we should see some fairly decent HH/OH waves. This groundswell doesn’t have super long intervals so surf will be decently consistent.  Well OH-OH+ by nightfall.  The swell peaks Saturday morning with OH waves at first light. Things taper off to abut shoulder/HH by evening.  Sunday sees chest/shoulder high waves tapering off quickly to waist high by sunset.  Another new NW makes it way into town for Monday with surf staring off on the smaller side and then filling in to chest/shoulder high by midday.  Size holds through the night and through most of Tuesday.  There’s more N in this one so the breaks farther south and the better Winter spots will see slightly larger surf.  Size decreases for Wednesday with waist/chest high surf and waist high by the evening session.  Smaller surf Thursday but it looks like there may be yet another small NW waiting in the wings.  The storms are sort of small so the swells aren’t huge…fun but not huge.

The So Cal version of the Polar Vortex brought us some much needed rain and some INSANELY big surf but that’s all gone now and we’re looking at Santa Ana type weather for the weekend. Before that we have a little chance of drizzle tonight and in the morning with partly cloudy skies all day…probably more so at the coast with some sunshine inland.  Then we’ll see some sunshine all weekend with air temps in the high 60s for Friday and then mid to high 70s and maybe even 80 by Sunday and clear skies.  Evenings will see east winds and light to moderate west winds by midday.  Things cooling off and clouding up a little for the start of the week but then warming up midweek and sliding into a sunny weekend next week.  Water temps got a boost with that last swell as it swept up from the south.  Readings are in the low 60s around most of town and maybe a hair cooler closer to the border and at the lower tides.  Mid-morning medium low moving slightly up to a late-afternoon/early evening high.

Looks like some fun surf for this weekend and nice weather on top of that!  Stay wet San Diego!

Mish

Ocean Notes:
1)      Well, I couldn’t very well pass up all the insane fotos of the massive swell on the biggest days EVER.  There’s Youtube (lots more on YouTube), Surfline, Surfing Mag, and of course, Surfer Mag.

2)    Peahi was doing it’s thing and almost took a few surfers down.

3)    And how about this wipeout down in Tazzieland!  This is their SUMMER surf!!!  It amazes me that we don’t see more wipeouts like this.  Glad the dude survived!



La Jolla Cove March 1, 2014
Photo:Rick Avena


 Tides for La Jolla (Scripps Institution Wharf) starting with March 7, 2014.

www.saltwatertides.com
Day        High      Tide  Height   Sunrise    Moon  Time      % Moon
           /Low      Time    Feet    Sunset                    Visible
 
F    7     High   1:04 AM     4.4   6:09 AM    Rise 10:25 AM      33
     7      Low   8:27 AM     1.0   5:51 PM
     7     High   3:09 PM     2.7
     7      Low   7:28 PM     2.3
 
Sa   8     High   2:17 AM     4.1   6:08 AM     Set 12:34 AM      43
     8      Low  10:09 AM     0.9   5:52 PM    Rise 11:13 AM
     8     High   5:31 PM     2.9
     8      Low   9:15 PM     2.5
 
Su   9     High   4:43 AM     4.0   7:07 AM     Set  1:23 AM      52
     9      Low  12:24 PM     0.6   6:52 PM    Rise  1:02 PM
     9     High   7:26 PM     3.2
     9      Low  11:50 PM     2.4
 
M   10     High   5:56 AM     4.2   7:05 AM     Set  3:08 AM      62
    10      Low   1:12 PM     0.4   6:53 PM    Rise  1:53 PM
    10     High   7:55 PM     3.5
 
Tu  11      Low  12:48 AM     2.0   7:04 AM     Set  3:50 AM      71
    11     High   6:50 AM     4.5   6:54 PM    Rise  2:45 PM
    11      Low   1:45 PM     0.1
    11     High   8:17 PM     3.7
 

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