Impressive winter storm over the past few days dropped snow to the coast north of Pt Arena, folks skiing on Mt Tam and everywhere record snowfall totals for places not accustomed to seeing any snow at all. The pattern that has set up out in the Pacific is conducive to a lot more weather into the first week of March and probably beyond - but will it also generate surf? For the most part yes, but with steeper angled northwest swells due in part to low pressure being anchored further up in the NE Pacific. We still have some residual swell from this past event at 8-10ft this am - with light winds nearshore. Winds will pick up later today. Winds do look highly variable the next 5-7 days with rain, passing fronts, strong south winds in advance at times and strong nw winds behind. Swell looks to crank back up Monday 12-15 ft (larger north of Bodega) and Tuesday, fading some into Wednesday but still solid. La Niña is gone and we are headed to El Niño late year. My sense reading the tea leaves, very wet spring to come with a lot of wind and a very warm summer ahead. Cya in the water.
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