Santa Barbara Surf Forecast - Weekend Waves - 1/30-1/31/2010

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WNW-NW swell fills in more on Saturday…but will have to suffer through another large morning high tide. Spots that can handle the tide will have surf in the chest-shoulder high range with some head high sets sneaking through at times. As the tide drops, and the swell gets a little bigger, look for the average exposed breaks to build into the shoulder-head high range with some bigger overhead sets showing occasionally. Winds look ok…light but sort of NW-NNW in the morning, and then more WNW 10-15+ knots for the afternoon.

The WNW-NW swell will hold similar sizes into Sunday but expect the swell to show a bit more at spots further north than then did on Saturday…expect a bit of a slowdown through the morning as we see yet another solid morning high tide. Winds look better…mostly light to moderate offshore, with some variable onshore texture finally setting up in the afternoon.

Here are the tides…have a good one!

01/30/2010 Saturday
02:51AM LST 1.2 L
09:03AM LST 6.8 H
03:56PM LST -1.7 L
10:20PM LST 4.7 H

01/31/2010 Sunday
03:41AM LST 0.9 L
09:50AM LST 6.4 H
04:33PM LST -1.4 L
10:57PM LST 4.9 H