San Diego Surf Forecast: Strong S swell continues on Tuesday

The S swell hit the exposed spots pretty solidly on Monday but due to the steeper southerly swell angle skipped past a lot of breaks in San Diego. The North County spots had the biggest and most consistent surf...but there were a few nuggets spread throughout the better summer spots in the rest of the county as well.

On Tuesday we are going to see the S-swell (170-190) continue to hold while SW swell (200-220) peaks. The new SW’er will help to bend a bit more surf into the SD spots and we should see bigger surf at the SW facing breaks throughout the county.



Wave heights will continue to run around shoulder-head high at the average S-SW facing spots. Standout S facing breaks through North San Diego will have overhead sets. In a few of the spots that can really focus the S swell mix look for sets going a couple feet overhead at times.

Winds will be ok...sort of slight-eddyish...so variable to light southerly through the morning but mostly below 5-6 knots. Winds shift SW-W around 10-15 knots for the afternoon.



Points and reefs are going to continue to be the best call on Tuesday...we just need something to break up the swell. The piers/jetties will be a good fallback but I would rate them as a far second choice compared to some long point somewhere. Just an FYI to North County surfers...the NSSA Nationals are back in town for this week...they are going to be at at Lower Trestles the 22-27th. I just wanted to give you guys a heads up if you were planning on surfing those spots since water access might be a bit limited.

Here are the tides

03:43AM LDT 3.1 H
09:56AM LDT 1.3 L
04:51PM LDT 4.6 H