First off, LA made it through another Santa Ana wind event overnight, but a few more wind events to come this week for them. Nothing as strong as last week. Cali, in fact the entire West Coast is high and dry and looks to stay that way now through the end of January. Blocking high pressure is the culprit- with two variations called a Rex Block and Omega Block trading places - both deal with the placement of high pressure and low pressure - and in our case neither are good - it stops storm production and swell production because the jet stream flow remains far to our north. With this high pressure ridge over us and the northeast Pacific - nothing is going to break through for a while. Add La Niña flexing now, mid winter, doesn't bode well for LA in particular. They could very well not get much rain down there the rest of the winter. Nor Cal has faired better with early seasons rains - 25-40 inches of rain north of SF to date for most places - but things will start to dry out later this month. Surf wise - we do have swell as the West Pacific is still churning out storms - mid size/mid period stuff most of this week - deepwater heights 6-8ft 13-14 seconds - followed by an increase in larger north wind swell when winds pick up again Friday into the weekend. Water and air temps are cool to cold - SF water around 53 - further north - 49-50. Offshore winds for the most part in the mornings - so some ideal conditions. Not seeing any change in the pattern now through Jan 26. Beyond that hopefully the pattern will break down and give us something that looks like winter again. Cya in the water.
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