First hurricane swell and smaller SW

Aloha all!  Looking at some fun and fairly inconsistent SW swell along the coast this Friday.  It’s the tail end of this swell with some waist/chest high surf around most of town with some slightly bigger sets in the shoulder high range around northern SD County.  Swell energy drops off on Sat morning but there’s some new but steep SW that might be seen at the better summer spots.  The good news is that we’re seeing our first tropical storm swell, Cristina, too!  She’s staying fairly south and close to the tip of Baja but we might see some of her energy before she heads west and out of our swell window.  Look for more waist/chest high waves with some super steep hurricane swell at the best summer spots later in the day.  Sunday is looking smaller as we see mostly the tail end of that SW swell, not much more hurricane swell and more thigh/waist high NW windswell.  Monday is looking at WNW windswell, and we’ll start Tuesday off with much of the same in the knee high range.  Surf is the smallest Wed morning with knee high surf.  A new SW groundswell should be filling in during the latest part of the day.  The swell isn’t really aimed directly at our swell window so we’re only looking at waist high waves from this one.  Inconsistent waist high waves for Thursday and into Friday.  The long term forecast is kind of grim for awhile. There’s a nice sized storm forecasted to come off the ice shelf in about 5 days but that needs time to get to us so we’re not seeing any significant SW groundswell for awhile.   

The good news is that the water’s warming up and is sitting in the high 60s along all of SD coastline.  We’ll see some sunshine but it’ll be mixed with a fair amount of clouds through the weekend and into next week.  Air temps only hitting the high 60s/low 70s along the coast.  Winds will be calm in the mornings and evenings with light to moderate west winds midday.  Friday is also the full moon (Yes, Friday the 13^th is a Full Moon!) so we’re seeing some extremely low tides in the mornings for the dawn patrol, up to a medium high late morning and then back down to a medium low for the late afternoon before racing up to a very high tide a few hours after sunset.  Looks like the late morning medium high tide push and the mid-afternoon sessions might be the best times to surf.

Enjoy the beach as we roll into summertime! 

Stay wet So Cal!

Mish

Tides for La Jolla (Scripps Institution Wharf) starting with June 13, 2014.

www.saltwatertides.com

Day        High      Tide  Height   Sunrise    Moon  Time      % Moon

           /Low      Time    Feet    Sunset                    Visible

F   13      Low   4:15 AM    -1.5   5:40 AM     Set  6:20 AM      99

    13     High  10:41 AM     4.0   7:58 PM    Rise  8:38 PM

    13      Low   3:36 PM     1.6

    13     High   9:57 PM     6.5

Sa  14      Low   4:59 AM    -1.5   5:40 AM     Set  7:24 AM      99

    14     High  11:28 AM     4.1   7:58 PM    Rise  9:32 PM

    14      Low   4:25 PM     1.6

    14     High  10:42 PM     6.3

Su  15      Low   5:45 AM    -1.4   5:40 AM     Set  8:31 AM      95

    15     High  12:18 PM     4.1   7:59 PM    Rise 10:22 PM

    15      Low   5:19 PM     1.8

    15     High  11:31 PM     6.0

M   16      Low   6:33 AM    -1.1   5:40 AM     Set  9:39 AM      89

    16     High   1:12 PM     4.2   7:59 PM    Rise 11:07 PM

    16      Low   6:20 PM     1.9

Tu  17     High  12:26 AM     5.4   5:41 AM     Set 10:46 AM      81

    17      Low   7:23 AM    -0.6   7:59 PM    Rise 11:48 PM

    17     High   2:09 PM     4.3

    17      Low   7:34 PM     2.0