San Diego Surf Forecast: SW swell continues into the Weekend

We will have a couple of playful surf days over the weekend...nothing great but better than the super small sizes we had plaguing us during the beginning of the week. Keep in mind that while we have some swell we are still going to need to find a spot that can break it up a little bit.

The SW swell mix (190-220) will continue to peak into Saturday before slowly fading on Sunday. There will also be some minor windswell in the water...but with short periods (around 3-4 seconds which basically makes it “wind-chop” coming in from the outer waters)...so it won’t do much of a job of breaking up the longer mostly walled up lines at the beach breaks.

Check out the CDIP nowcast for this afternoon.



You can see that while all of SD is getting some surf the majority of the bigger sets and energy is going to be focusing in just a few areas like North County and a few select areas in Central County.

The wind looks ok for the next couple of mornings. Forecast charts are calling it light and variable...with a slight eddy-type flow to it. So look for weak southerly winds through the mornings with some building W-WNW winds 10-15 knots through the afternoons. Cloudy overcast skies at first and then some burn off through the end of the day.

Saturday Morning Winds



Sunday Morning Winds



Since there are a lot of beach breaks around my neck of the woods...I really wish that there was something to break this swell up a bit. Unfortunately we aren’t going to get much help in that department so you will have to be a bit more selective in your spot choice. Points and reefs will continue to be the best call...and then fall back on the piers/jetties/rocks/submerged cars/shipwrecks/really slow whales that can create a little crease in the lines coming in. You can still expect some longer waits between waves but we should have a little more consistency over the next couple of days.

Here are the tides...have a good one.

Saturday
03:42AM LDT -0.7 L
10:06AM LDT 3.4 H
02:32PM LDT 2.2 L
08:43PM LDT 5.8 H

Sunday
04:17AM LDT -0.8 L
10:45AM LDT 3.4 H
03:05PM LDT 2.3 L
09:15PM LDT 5.8 H

Have a good one...make sure to check out the www.socalsurf.com forecast blog if you need some info on the rest of Southern California.

Adam Wright
Forecaster
Socalsurf.com