Saturday starts off with some new WNW-NW swell (280-300) starting to show early in the day but not getting a ton of new size on the beach for the morning. The WNW-NW builds in through Saturday afternoon and peaks throughout the day on Sunday. Small, much less consistent, SW energy (200-220) holds in the background.
Waves
Look for mostly smaller waves…lots of knee-waist high sets at the average spots early in the morning on Saturday. A few of the top breaks will see some chest high sets…and maybe a little more size as the first part of the new WNW-NW swell starts to arrive. This energy will fill in through the day and push waist-chest high+ surf in the average spots and some chest-head high sets at the standout breaks.
Sunday the WNW-NW peaks and we can expect consistent chest-shoulder high surf at the average exposed spots and some shoulder-head high+ waves during the bigger sets at the standout NW facing spots.
Winds
Mostly light winds Saturday morning but starting to increase out of the NW pretty early. Look for NW winds 10-14 knots by midmorning and gusts hitting 20 knots by the afternoon.
Sunday the winds will be light and variable to N-NE around 10-12 knots…depending on how exposed your spots are. Look for the usual onshore afternoon winds out of the NW 10-15 knots.
Santa Barbara Tides
11/21/2009 Sat
01:28AM LST 3.4 H
04:47AM LST 3.2 L
11:09AM LST 5.0 H
07:04PM LST 0.4 L
11/22/2009 Sun
02:40AM LST 3.5 H
05:51AM LST 3.4 L
11:56AM LST 4.6 H
07:57PM LST 0.7 L
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