Orange County Surf Forecast - For Friday - 1/08/10

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New swell will be showing some waves in the morning, nothing huge, but coming up a bit from what we had on Thursday. Look for the average spots to run in the waist-chest high range while the standout North OC winter breaks (the WNW facing spots) will be in the shoulder high+ range through the dawn patrol.

By the afternoon the swell will have filled in a bit more and all of our W-WNW facing breaks will be in the rise for both size and consistency. Average spots will bump into the chest-shoulder high+ range while the winter standouts see some consistent shoulder-head high surf with overhead sets mixing in at times.

Winds look good…mostly light offshore for the morning and then light/variable to light onshore for the afternoon. Chance for some patchy fog too but most of it will likely hold off the coast until the winds start to shift around in the afternoon.

Here are the tides…

01/08/2010 Friday
03:29AM LST 5.1 H
11:05AM LST 0.7 L
05:05PM LST 2.8 H
09:39PM LST 2.0 L