Orange County Surf Forecast – Waves for Wednesday

The Swell
Orange County will see a mix of fading WNW swell (290-300), some background SW energy (200-220), and some local NW windswell that pushes in a bit more by the afternoon.



Waves
The two longer-period swells don’t really mix well for OC thanks to shadowing by the Nearshore Islands. The NW swell hits in mostly North County and the SW’er shows almost exclusively in South County. Since we don’t see that much combo it looks like our surf is going to hold in the knee-high to knee-high+ range at most of the average spots. The standout NW and the standout SW facing spots will be slightly bigger in the knee-waist high range with a few rare chest high sets pushing through on the lower tides. Like I said in the main forecast the tide is going to be an issue…so try and avoid surfing as it peaks if you can.

Winds
Look for light and variable conditions early…but with a touch of onshore flow picking up by midmorning. Generally it will be clean but with a couple of pockets of texture building in at the really wind exposed areas, particularly around the areas of patchy fog that will roll through. W-NW winds 10-15 knots build in through the afternoon.

Orange County Tides
02:40AM LST 2.1 L
08:52AM LST 6.3 H
04:23PM LST -0.7 L
10:50PM LST 3.6 H