Santa Barbara Surf Forecast - For Thursday - 1/07/10

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Slow start in the morning…even with the first part of the new W-WNW’er starting to show. The swell periods are pretty long in the initial energy from that swell, which means that the energy is either wrapped back towards Point Conception or is shifted down into Ventura County. Still there will be a little short/medium period energy out of the WNW that will put a few longboardable lines into the top breaks.

Expect surf to be mostly in the ankle high range with a few knee high sections here and there. Top WNW facing spots will be around waist high on the sets. By the afternoon the swell will fill in a bit more…nothing huge (yet)…but it should be good enough for waist-chest high waves at the average spots and a few chest-shoulder high+ sets at the standouts.

Winds look good for the morning…moderate offshore out of the ENE in the 10-15 knot range. Look for WNW winds around 10-15+ knots for the afternoon…getting a little breezy at the more wide open spots with no protection.

Here are the tides…

01/07/2010 Thursday
03:02AM LST 5.0 H
09:59AM LST 1.2 L
03:38PM LST 3.0 H
08:54PM LST 1.7 L