Small this week but nice SW for the long weekend!

Yo ho!  It’s been pretty small lately but all is not lost!  For our Labor Day weekend we’re going to have some surf!  Right now we’re looking at very small NW wind swell in the knee high range with some very small and mostly nonexistent steep S swell.  That wind swell will continue through the week until mid/late Thursday.  Late Thursday we’ll start to see some very long period and inconsistent SW swell.  Friday will be our turn around day with long period SW swells moving into our swell window and surf bumping up into the waist/chest high range by morning and picking up significantly throughout the day.  Look for shoulder/HH by sunset with even more swell for Saturday as the swell peaks in the HH+ range.  The angle on this swell will have some nice westerly direction in it so most SD beaches will be getting fun waves through the weekend. Sunday the swell backs down slightly but still be packing some juice along the coast.  The better summer spots will be feisty with OH waves steadily through the day.  Sunday might see some SE swell from Tropical Storm (soon to be Hurricane) Ilena as she moves more northerly and up past Cabo.  Monday will see a wee decrease in size but increase in consistency.   Tuesday will still see plenty of surf in the shoulder/HH range with the combo of two SW and SE swells.  Backing down more on Wed.  Looks like a few smaller S and SW swells following behind but the Friday-Tues swell looks to be the doozy of the bunch.  Lots of swell for all you hungry surfers!

Weather looks to be outstanding for the week and into the long weekend. Plenty of heat for the next few days, cooling down ever so slightly for the weekend.  We’re looking at high 70s again for Tues/Wed with some fairly moderate onshore west winds for Tuesday.  Then things cool down into the weekend…mid 70s and stay in the mid to high 70s for most of next week.  We’re seeing some big tide swings for this week as we approach Friday’s Full Moon…a BLUE MOON I might add…the second Full Moon this month! We’re looking at a medium high tide for the morning session and medium low early afternoon with a big high in the evening and more water movement through the day as we get closer to Friday.  Water temps have dipped a little with water in the 70-73 degree range and even a 69 down Pt. Loma’s way.  Hopefully that big SW will push more warm water back our direction.

Looks like some fun surf on the way for the weekend…wax ‘em if you got ‘em!

Lates,

Mish

OceanNotes:

1)       It’s still two weeks away but don’t forget to put the Paddle for Clean Water on your calendar for September 16^th down at Ocean Beach!  Also enjoy the free breakfast, guest speakers, raffle and participate in the beach clean up! 

2)      While we’ve got some downtime with all this small surf you might as well get all those aches and pains taken care of before the El Nino winter kicks in. Check out Surfer Mag’s Rotator Cuff Rehab article. 

3)      The South Pacific has decided to hit the snooze button during the Billabong Pro.  On the latest day of competition Slater got ousted by…who?  Check out the slashing and ripping in shoulder to head high high barreling waves.

4)      If you haven’t already stood staring at the amazing photographs at this gallery you must check out Aaron Chang's gallery.  He just had his Grand Re-opening and the place is as spectacular as ever!   Beautiful work by an amazing photographer!

5)      And we’ll end with some big waves surfing from down in Peru where the Billabong Pico Alto finished up and Carlos Burle, a familiar face in the big wave arena, took top honors.  Some darn nice waves down there!  You know, it was only 35-40’…child’s play.

Encinitas July 2009

My tide table website was down today so we've only got the tide table this time around...sorry!

Tides for La Jolla (Scripps Institution Wharf) starting with August 28, 2012.

www.saltwatertides.com

Day        High      Tide  Height   Sunrise    Moon  Time      % Moon

           /Low      Time    Feet    Sunset                    Visible

Tu  28      Low   1:53 AM    -0.5   6:22 AM     Set  3:23 AM      84

    28     High   8:21 AM     4.4   7:18 PM    Rise  5:19 PM

    28      Low   1:33 PM     1.7

    28     High   7:46 PM     6.1

W   29      Low   2:31 AM    -0.6   6:22 AM     Set  4:26 AM      91

    29     High   8:53 AM     4.7   7:17 PM    Rise  5:59 PM

    29      Low   2:19 PM     1.4

    29     High   8:31 PM     6.2

Th  30      Low   3:06 AM    -0.5   6:23 AM     Set  5:29 AM      96

    30     High   9:24 AM     5.0   7:16 PM    Rise  6:35 PM

    30      Low   3:01 PM     1.0

    30     High   9:12 PM     6.0

F   31      Low   3:38 AM    -0.3   6:23 AM     Set  6:30 AM      99

    31     High   9:54 AM     5.2   7:14 PM    Rise  7:08 PM

    31      Low   3:41 PM     0.8

    31     High   9:51 PM     5.7

Sa   1      Low   4:08 AM     0.0   6:24 AM     Set  7:29 AM      99

     1     High  10:23 AM     5.3   7:13 PM    Rise  7:41 PM

     1      Low   4:19 PM     0.7

     1     High  10:29 PM     5.3