Cold system dropping south today is bringing light rain, low elevation snow and hail to Nor Cal. Winds have been howling over the ocean for a few days now - ocean temps responding accordingly - Pt Arena Buoy is 49 deg and dropping. SF Buoy, low 50s. It's going to get quite cold the next few nights and as we head towards March the pattern looks to remain unsettled. High pressure, which has been camped out for almost two full months in and around the west coast is building back in, but will retreat some to the west as we head into March allowing for some storms to dive in on the back side - like October/December, however these storms will have less moisture to work with. That said, we will take anything we can get. Swell production wise - the N Pac is active and we will start to see progressively larger swell trains as we head into the weekend and following week. Forerunners of this coming weekend swell will run in Friday night - 2ft at 24 seconds to start! Saturday should start out 7-9 ft, long periods with swell maxing on Sunday at 10-12ft, long periods. Winds look to drop off briefly Friday, but ramp back up Saturday from the south 15-20 kts, and Sunday, 10-15 kts from the south as we have a chance of rain starting Saturday. Upshot, lot of weather in our forecast along with swell. Should be stuff to ride if you know where to look! Cya in the water.
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