More W swell, offshore and sunshine!

Kicking off the week with some pretty messy windblown surf.  There’s some decent size to it as a new WNW bumps the surf into the chest/shoulder high range by Monday late morning.  Swell peaks out early and then slowly declines through the day with Tues morning seeing some waist/chest high surf out of the W as a new smaller W swell fills in.  This short lived swell will just give us a little boost in size with chest high surf for the closing bell on Tuesday and fading out for Wed.  Then we’re looking at a small longer period swell to kick off the day Thursday.  Waist high W swell will gradually make it into the waist/chest high range as it peaks and moves through town fairly quickly late Thurs and into Fri.  Back down to waist high by Fri and a bit more WNW by then so the better winter spots will see a little more size. Sat is looking pretty small with thigh/waist high surf for most of the day.  Super Bowl Sunday things look to turn around as a nice long period NW swell makes it to town.  Swell starts off in the waist high range and picks up quickly as the swell builds through the day. Should be pretty fun and in the chest/shoulder high range right around kick off with the size peaking off at sunset and into Monday in the HH/OH range!  A few more days of swell as that swell dissipates midweek and then it looks like things get a little quiet for now.

Winds have been the trouble maker the past two days.  Still a chance of showers tonight and NW winds into the night but turning NE by dawn as things start to clean up tomorrow.   It might be a fairly nice and clean dawn patrol as that new swell fills in…cold though with the NE winds.  Partly sunny and cloudy through the day and NW winds pick up in the afternoon putting some bump on the water so earlier will be better.  Monday night looks like more COLD NE winds with air temps dropping into the low 40s making for a pretty chilly dawn patrol Tues.  Light and variable winds for Tues with E winds expected overnight. Luckily the sun will come out Tues and Wed but air temps will stay in the high 50s/low 60s until Thurs when the sunshine will bring us high 60s along the coast.  Water temps in the mid50s still.  Big tide swings as we have the full moon tonight.  Full mid-morning tides will slow things down (nice push for the dawn patrollers though) and a negative low in the late afternoon. 

Looks like Thurs and Fri might be a nice call for some fun and slightly warmer surf! And be smart...we've had a significant amount of rain the past few days so surf away from stormdrains and lagoon/river mouths.

I’m out!

Mish

Ocean Notes:

1)    And want to really save water?  Take an “air shower” with this cool new Aussie water saving shower head.  It showers you with hollow water droplets (aka bubbles) and you use 50% less water!  Sounds clean and green to me!

2)    We’ve been having some mighty fine swell over the past month…not huge for the most part but pretty dang fun! Here’s a nice overview of the Nor-Cal, SoCal and The Islands over the past few swells. 

3)    And here’s a great look at an awesome roadtrip from LA to Argentina…yes, you’ll want to pack your bags after this one!

4)    The Atlantic has seen a few really nice storms this winter too and as a result places like Portugal are getting slammed with big surf.  Check this out if you don’t believe me!

Tides for La Jolla (Scripps Institution Wharf) starting with January 28, 2013.

www.saltwatertides.com

Day        High      Tide  Height   Sunrise    Moon  Time      % Moon

           /Low      Time    Feet    Sunset                    Visible

M   28      Low   3:12 AM     1.4   6:46 AM     Set  7:22 AM      99

    28     High   9:19 AM     5.5   5:18 PM    Rise  7:08 PM

    28      Low   3:59 PM    -0.6

    28     High  10:23 PM     4.3

Tu  29      Low   3:49 AM     1.3   6:46 AM     Set  7:56 AM      97

    29     High   9:53 AM     5.2   5:19 PM    Rise  8:07 PM

    29      Low   4:27 PM    -0.4

    29     High  10:54 PM     4.4

W   30      Low   4:31 AM     1.3   6:45 AM     Set  8:30 AM      92

    30     High  10:30 AM     4.8   5:20 PM    Rise  9:07 PM

    30      Low   4:56 PM     0.0

    30     High  11:29 PM     4.5

Th  31      Low   5:21 AM     1.4   6:44 AM     Set  9:05 AM      86

    31     High  11:13 AM     4.2   5:21 PM    Rise 10:08 PM

    31      Low   5:27 PM     0.5

F    1     High  12:09 AM     4.5   6:44 AM     Set  9:42 AM      78

     1      Low   6:24 AM     1.4   5:22 PM    Rise 11:10 PM

     1     High  12:07 PM     3.5

     1      Low   6:03 PM     1.0