Small gutless surf continues up and down the California Coast into the weekend, not much hope in the short term. Watching Tropical Storm Carlotta moving west/northwest and may come into the CA swell window over the weekend - sending a small pulse of tropical swell up - especially for So Cal. How much makes it north of Santa Cruz hard to say right now. Models forecasting deep water along the lines of 3ft@13 seconds - steep south angle - let's see if it develops. More interesting and just a model feature right now is a second tropical storm/hurricane behind Carlotta forecast to develop. Looks like that would be a larger storm and movement into a better swell window as it heads north a bit further before turning to the west. Will watch both over the next couple days and see how things shape up. September less than a month away now, so hang in. **I will be taking the rest of August off from reports - get things going again in September. Cya in the water.
