south swell this week-end

For anybody thinking of beach launch this weekend noaa is predicting south swell from a hurricane arriving by Friday.  It doesn't look like it'll be that big but could translate into a bigger break then you might otherwise count on at some of the beaches .

Where are you getting this info from?  Looks good to me.

I don't think it will affect us. hurricane swells hardly ever do.

Now, southern hemisphere "winter" swells do sometimes, they can be big on south facing beaches in our summers.

a forecast is just a forecast but this weekend looks good so far.

I use http://www.blakestah.com for all my fishing/surfing needs, checked against http://facs.scripps.edu/surf/nocal.html (click on the pt reyes buoy for spectrum) and http://sfports.wr.usgs.gov/cgi-bin/wind/windbin.cgi the morning of.

We had 3ft south swell last weekend too and it was no big deal.  I was wringing my farmer johns about it for nothing.

I think it was 1.8 feet on the pt reyes spectrum. and real south, 185. If it's over 2 ft on that bouy in the 14-18 second period band, I go surfing.

I've seen 4.5ft south swells from 205, this means 9 foot faces in santa cruz, every 3 hrs, an 18foot faced wave on the break. I don't know if you all remember the sailboats on the santa cruz beaches in 96 or something. I remember paddling over some waves at greyhound rock that scared the poop out of me. normally that only happens in the winter. the scaring of the poop I mean...

so south swells can be a big deal, but yeah, this isn't one of them.

the blakestah _is_ calling for a real nw next week, but he gets a little excited and optimistic at the beginning of the season, so I don't know...

I'm sure everyone knows about this site, but in case you don't, it's a great resource for checking swell predictions: https://www.fnmoc.navy.mil/PUBLIC/WAM/wam.html

Where are you getting this info from?  Looks good to me.

It was the noaa report but the navy one listed here is pretty good too. Probably won't amount to anything but at a few spots that catch the s swell pretty good a little size goes a long way.

I just looked at the noaa swell forecast and it looks like they changed the s swell prediction to nw and then mixed.