Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Surf on Thursday - Cleaning up...but waiting for the new swell

Thursday will be more of a surf day than we have seen in a while.

Local winds finally start to back down and we should actually see some surfable conditions at the NW facing spots during the morning.

We will have a mix of steeper NW windswell and some background S swell. Most NW facing breaks see more shoulder-head high+ surf with semi-stacked up and windswelly shape thanks to the short-period nature of the swell. S facing spots will be in knee-waist high+ range on the better sets.

Winds will start off light for most of the exposed areas blowing out of the N around 5-15 knots in the morning...shifting a tad more NW by the afternoon.

Santa Cruz areas see light E winds and clean conditions through most of the morning.

Looks like there may be a touch of that new WNW swell starting to push in late in evening...right around sundown...it isn't really the main push of swell but just some smaller forerunners coming out of the lead elements of the storm. I expect that we will have a bit more consistency and a little more size as we head into the evening...but I am still looking for a bigger pulse of WNW energy to arrive as we head into Friday.

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