Waves for the Weekend – Sloppy Saturday with a clean-up on Sunday
Saturday looks chunky/funky as winds shift and hold onshore. Sunday conditions clean up and it looks like a surf day. We will get a bit of a split decision this weekend thanks to a cold front pushing through the Socal region late Friday night and then moving further east on Saturday. Onshore W-NW winds will accompany this front and it will have things fairly blown out for Saturday morning. Sunday high-pressure builds back over the area and it looks like offshore winds will return. Swellwise we are going to see a mix of peaking WNW energy (285-300) and some local WNW-NW windswell (290-300). A small SW swell will hold way in the background.

Surf Photos – Friday – Post Turkey Dawn Patrol
Drove around and checked out the new swell this morning…and it was showing were it was supposed to (the top NW spots)…and it was even pushing some ok looking waves into the lesser exposed breaks. Check out the CDIP nowcast from this morning…Anyway I busted out the camera and snapped a few before the sun came up…the fast m

Surf for Friday – New WNW swell starts to peak
Friday will be a surf day…lots of waves to help snap us out of the post-turkey coma.The new swell is right on time…already hitting the outer buoys and starting to filter through the nearshore islands. Check out the “Nowcast” from the CDIP…this is the one that is built off of actual data…not just the forecast model…you can really see the new energy piling up in the outer waters. It is also a great example to see how a steeper more Northerly swell angle gets heavily shadowed by Point Conception and all of those pesky islands.

Turkey Day Surf – Clean and holding…with a new NW swell out the back
Thanksgiving will be a marginal surf day…the swell is still a little steeply angled to put many waves at the “average spots”…expect nice conditions but mostly slow inconsistent surf. In the water we are going to have a mix of holding NW energy (290-300), some background SW swell (200-220) and some local NW windswell.

Swell Alert – Good sized W-WNW heading to the West Coast
A strong new W-WNW swell will start moving into the California Coast late tonight, hitting the Northern and Central California regions well after sundown and eventually peaking in those regions on Thanksgiving.Southern California will start to see some WNW-NW (280-300) long-period energy (18-20 seconds) later Thursday afternoon…eventually peaking throughout the day on Friday and holding into the weekend.Like most of the intense storms we have seen so far this season this latest system is another mix of extra-tropical moisture from near Japan and a colder, higher-latitude, cold-front moving off of Siberia and the Kamchatka Peninsula. The rapid cooling of the warm-mo