What do you guys think about "1-3' overhead" this Sunday at WB with air temp in the 60s? I'll be there even if you say it's going to blow.
It first waves we will have had in awhile.. But my friend, not gonna be ideal.. True weather will be warmer but winds are gonna be all over the place.. Time will tell
its going to suck really bad. this seems to happen a lot. When we don't have waves for a while, the first swell we get is crappy.
It has seemed to me that even if the WB forecast is generally bad, it's rideable early morning, then becomes difficult around noon... the size (and the drought) is enticing me. The only time I avoid going is if it claims "strong sideshore current".
Don't bullsh*t your self, we all know whats gonna happen. Head Slop the day before blown to thigh high overnight. I mean the right side of my brain is hoping as hard of the rest of you guys that thats not the case....but the left side is remembering all the times the exact same thing (blown flat over night) has happened and you run over the dunes with a 5'10 when you need a 10'5.
Just out of curiosity, where have you seen anything except SSW at 20+? And if it isn't SSW super hard, there won't be any size building. It's a perfect example of Catch 22.
I mean, as of now the winds switch overnight, it's possible that the wind switch could move more into sunday or more later monday morning, so the size is till there. The best case scenarios would be for the winds to switch right on monday's sunrise, so we get all day.
The wind always (90% of what I've ever seen) will switch at dark with a system like this (anybody have any idea about why this is I'd be happy to hear it, I speculate it has to do with the temperature drop that accompanies night fall). You might get a golden 30 minutes with the size and the shape, but normally one has to be sacrificed for the other unless there is a major source of swell somewhere offshore. And while the wind change at dawn would be ideal, I've never heard of that happening with a major(relatively) system. Maybe a few days over the summer the wind'll do that, but I've only ever seen is when its a minor swell thats unrelated to the local winds(i.e. not brought by a low).
I've seen it much more sideshore... producing "strong sideshore current", which is a pain in the asshole.
don't worry about what adowcett says; he's from the internet. let's all just enjoy the first rideable surf we've seen in two weeks, right?
As long as it's not a 20 knot drift, and an impossible paddle out, I'll be content. More than content, actually.
