San Diego Surf Forecast - Waves for the weekend - 1/09-1/10/10

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Solids swell fills in overnight and holds into Saturday morning. A second W-WNW swell follows right behind the initial swell and increases wave heights even more on Sunday.

North County will still be a little bit shadowed by Catalina and San Clemente Islands…but since the direction is a little more westerly it will be able to sneak more energy into the region compared to a steeper NW swell. On Saturday expect most spots to hold around shoulder-head high with some overhead sets mixing in at times. The standout breaks will have some inconsistent sets going a couple of feet overhead. By Sunday the average spots build into the shoulder-overhead range fairly consistently…the top breaks will run in the overhead to well overhead range on the sets…keep in mind that as you get close to the edge of the island shadow that the sets will become less consistent and a touch smaller.

South County will pull in more size…on Saturday the average breaks will be running shoulder high to overhead+ on the sets. The best breaks will be consistently overhead with sets going a few feet overhead. Sunday the surf builds with average spots going head high to a few feet overhead on the sets. Standout breaks will see consistent overhead+ surf with sets hitting several feet overhead to around the double overhead range on the better parts of the tide swing. Expect the best shape at the points and reefs that can handle the extra juice.

Winds look good…mostly light offshore for the mornings and just a light/variable onshore pushing through in the afternoons. Good chance for those winds to lay down around sundown on both days.


Here are the tides…

01/09/2010 Saturday
04:24AM LST 5.2 H
12:07PM LST 0.2 L
06:32PM LST 2.9 H
10:46PM LST 2.1 L

01/10/2010 Sunday
05:18AM LST 5.4 H
12:58PM LST -0.3 L
07:29PM LST 3.2 H
11:47PM LST 2.2 L