Thalassocratic Thursday Surf & Culture Report
Lost Boys & Co...
All morning long, Cory and Taurus were heckling each other. Then they both started talking Russian. Well, Danny Kaye Russian... Then they started doing Mike Purpus - in Russian. Pretty damned funny... But they were so into it, that they kept following each other. They'd take off together and just keep up the banter. No. 1 is just before Cory whacked a das vedanya cutback. No.2 is Mark dipping into a long left at SL. He always makes it look way easy...
Partly cloudy this morning with 15 miles visibility. Winds were offshore at checkout by 1.1kts and the sea surface was smooth to glassy. The air temp was 45.2° and the water is slowly trying to warm up at 56.8°. Low tide is at 9:09am +0.4' and high tide will follow at 3:52pm +2.8'. The buoy is telling us that we have a west swell out of 264° at 3.9'. The surf is right around 3' at the low tide and might pop a bit with the tidal push. Maybe just a bit ragged, with the wind threatening to turn early. How's it looking for the weekend? We hodged a few things to help you out...
Semi-ok is okay with us... from Nathan Cool...
Today (Thursday) we have mostly short period NW wind swell along the California coast. NW wind swell increases this weekend, but it's not looking pretty then. Some light southern hemi comes into the picture Friday through early next week, which may be semi-ok during the first half of the week as conditions should clean-up some then. A cold storm is bearing down on the region, bringing wind, cold air, and rain to the region shortly.
But then there's Accu-Weather...
THE INITIAL COLD FRONT WILL BRING ABOUT 3 TO 5 HOURS OF MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN AND MOUNTAIN SNOW TO SAN LUIS OBISPO AND SANTA BARBARA COUNTIES ON FRIDAY...SPREADING INTO VENTURA AND LOS ANGELES COUNTIES LATE FRIDAY AFTERNOON INTO FRIDAY NIGHT. BEHIND THE COLD FRONT... A VERY COLD AND UNSTABLE AIR MASS WILL CONTINUE TO BRING A THREAT OF SHOWERS AND A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS INTO SATURDAY. SOME OF THESE POST-FRONTAL STORMS COULD BRING BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS... HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...AND WATERSPOUTS (emphasis ours... Ed.). PRELIMINARY RAINFALL AMOUNTS ARE GENERALLY EXPECTED TO RANGE FROM ONE HALF TO ONE INCH ACROSS THE COASTAL AND VALLEY AREAS...WITH ONE TO TWO INCHES POSSIBLE IN THE FOOTHILLS AND LOWER MOUNTAIN ELEVATIONS.
(Should we restock the storm cellar Auntie Em???... Ed.)
"When the surf breaks, we'll fix it..."
The Professor!!
All morning long, Cory and Taurus were heckling each other. Then they both started talking Russian. Well, Danny Kaye Russian... Then they started doing Mike Purpus - in Russian. Pretty damned funny... But they were so into it, that they kept following each other. They'd take off together and just keep up the banter. No. 1 is just before Cory whacked a das vedanya cutback. No.2 is Mark dipping into a long left at SL. He always makes it look way easy...
Partly cloudy this morning with 15 miles visibility. Winds were offshore at checkout by 1.1kts and the sea surface was smooth to glassy. The air temp was 45.2° and the water is slowly trying to warm up at 56.8°. Low tide is at 9:09am +0.4' and high tide will follow at 3:52pm +2.8'. The buoy is telling us that we have a west swell out of 264° at 3.9'. The surf is right around 3' at the low tide and might pop a bit with the tidal push. Maybe just a bit ragged, with the wind threatening to turn early. How's it looking for the weekend? We hodged a few things to help you out...
Semi-ok is okay with us... from Nathan Cool...
Today (Thursday) we have mostly short period NW wind swell along the California coast. NW wind swell increases this weekend, but it's not looking pretty then. Some light southern hemi comes into the picture Friday through early next week, which may be semi-ok during the first half of the week as conditions should clean-up some then. A cold storm is bearing down on the region, bringing wind, cold air, and rain to the region shortly.
But then there's Accu-Weather...
THE INITIAL COLD FRONT WILL BRING ABOUT 3 TO 5 HOURS OF MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN AND MOUNTAIN SNOW TO SAN LUIS OBISPO AND SANTA BARBARA COUNTIES ON FRIDAY...SPREADING INTO VENTURA AND LOS ANGELES COUNTIES LATE FRIDAY AFTERNOON INTO FRIDAY NIGHT. BEHIND THE COLD FRONT... A VERY COLD AND UNSTABLE AIR MASS WILL CONTINUE TO BRING A THREAT OF SHOWERS AND A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS INTO SATURDAY. SOME OF THESE POST-FRONTAL STORMS COULD BRING BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS... HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...AND WATERSPOUTS (emphasis ours... Ed.). PRELIMINARY RAINFALL AMOUNTS ARE GENERALLY EXPECTED TO RANGE FROM ONE HALF TO ONE INCH ACROSS THE COASTAL AND VALLEY AREAS...WITH ONE TO TWO INCHES POSSIBLE IN THE FOOTHILLS AND LOWER MOUNTAIN ELEVATIONS.
(Should we restock the storm cellar Auntie Em???... Ed.)
The Professor!!
