Friday, January 22, 2010

Santa Barbara Surf Forecast - waves for the Weekend - 1/23-1/24/2010

Make sure to read the full region forecast...it will help this one make sense, (Not promising any miracles though). Click here for the full forecast www.socalsurf.com.

Saturday actually looks semi-surfable for this area…winds are forecast to go a little more NNW’erly in the morning which means a lot of spots will have at least some protection from the winds, particularly some of the points. There will be plenty of surf on tap as well thanks to the W swell holding into the morning. Look for a lot of spots to run in the shoulder-overhead range while the top W-WNW facing spots see sets going a couple of feet overhead. The water quality won’t be good but the change in the winds and the sort-of fading swell energy (at least the windswell portion of it) will help to groom things out a bit.

Sunday looks much cleaner with more NE-N winds on tap for the morning and light winds holding through the afternoon. The surf drops a bit…still lots of chest-head high waves at the average W facing breaks. Standout WNW-NW spots, mostly through south county, will be in shoulder-overhead range on the sets.

Here are the tides…

01/23/2010 Saturday
02:37AM LST 4.5 H
10:34AM LST 1.4 L
04:45PM LST 2.4 H
07:51PM LST 2.3 L

01/24/2010 Sunday
03:41AM LST 4.8 H
11:49AM LST 0.7 L
06:49PM LST 2.6 H
09:29PM LST 2.6 L

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