Not much on the charts right now from the S Pac or N Pac. The South Pacific is basically asleep with blocking high pressure down under preventing storms from getting any traction over the open ocean. Minimal background south swell to continue and might tick up a notch by this weekend as the storm corridor between New Zealand and South America remains barely open. Up around our parts, the N Pac is under high pressure for the most part, although small systems continue to drift over the top of the ridge to the far north. But none of these systems are generating swell. We will have very strong northwest winds the rest of the week over the northern outer waters and that should generate some larger wind swell by Friday and Saturday with deep water heights reaching 8-10 feet Friday, 9-11 ft on Saturday. As such, some low period wind swell should propagate into the inner waters this weekend - but biggest north of Bodega Bay. SF/Bay Area likely to be an ugly mess with the winds. The one wild card is the heat wave coming that might suppress winds near shore. That would be most likely for Saturday/Sunday. Get what you can, it's almost September, see you in the water.
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