Orange County Surf Forecast - For Monday - 1/11/10

W-WNW swell continues to show on Monday…even putting a few decent sized sets into the exposed areas of N. OC. Unfortunately most of this swell mix is coming in from a pretty WNW direction, which puts a lot of the South County into a swell-shadow cast by the nearshore islands as well as Catalina and San Clemente islands. Those shadowed areas, as well as the normally “average” spots will have surf in the chest-head high range, possibly even a few bigger sets sneaking through on the low tide. Standout WNW-NW breaks in the north half of the county will be in the shoulder-overhead range on the bigger sets, again with the potential for some bigger sets on the lower tides.

Winds look good with light offshore to light/ variable flow on tap for the morning…maybe even moderately offshore near some of the passes and canyons that funnel the wind around.. Look for the winds to increase and shift a little more WNW (onshore) through the afternoon before possibly laying down again near the sunset.

Here are the tides…

01/11/2010 Monday
06:07AM LST 5.6 H
01:43PM LST -0.6 L
08:14PM LST 3.5 H