Lighter winds showing up and down the CA Coast this morning as high pressure has weakened some allowing for fog and low clouds to reform. Look for another round of pm winds SF north today and tomorrow and then trending lighter into the holiday weekend. Decent size, short period wind swell remains the main swell, 10-11 ft @9-11 seconds from 320 plus degrees. Background south swells remain around 2ft@16 seconds. Looking for a possible up tick in the south swell by Monday, with deep water heights potentially 3@17 seconds - most of this energy will likely be felt from Santa Cruz south to LA. Water temps are cold near shore - 49-50 degrees north of Sonoma County line and even a chilly 51 in SF. This is from the past week or more of strong winds blowing and the upwelling machine in full force. Finally, lot of hype about the upcoming El Niño event for fall and winter. Plenty of online kooks predicting an end of the world Super El Niño. Follow the facts and guidelines of the experts at NOAA who are for sure predicting El Niño to happen - in fact showing signs of formation already - however the strongest El Niño events, or Super El Niño's - are characterized by significant ocean-atmosphere coupling through the summer and it still remains to be seen whether this occurs in 2026. Also not every El Niño is the same and does not ensure strong impacts. Most past events do create more rain, snow, weather for CA and the Southwest, more storms equal more swells, but in a climate under siege because of our warming planet any weather impacts are highly variable. Cya in the water.
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