Decent size northwest swell to continue for N Cal through the next five days or so until a bigger swell train moves in. Early this AM swell is about 7 @12 Bay Area, closer to 9@12 north of Bodega. Swell direction pretty steep angle at 315 deg. Look for a new nw swell to come in on Friday at 6-8 ft @16 seconds, pushing up to 9-11ft at 15 sec on Saturday. Remaining decent into Sunday at 7-9ft. Biggest north of Bodega Bay. Best winds look likely tomorrow with light nw flow, stronger winds again Sat through Monday - although AM winds might trend offshore nearshore. Meanwhile, a large storm system in the Gulf of AK coming out of the Aleutians is pushing east and will stall over the weekend up near British Columbia. At the same time a Pacific High will dive SE alongside it and the combo will push a very long, strong fetch of winds and 311 degree swell our way for late Monday into Tuesday. This will likely be our first real swell of the season with deepwater swell heights on order 14-18ft - perhaps pushing 20ft north of Bodega Bay. More on this late Sunday or Early Monday as things become clearer. Weather wise, high pressure is lingering around us, but the overall trend out in the Pac is bias towards low pressure. Eventually we should start to see some rain chances increase by early November - but the models have been hinting at a pattern change for two weeks now and the ridge of high pressure has remained tough. Dust off the guns for next weeks swell. Cya in the water.
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