Orange County Surf Forecast - For Tuesday - 1/12/10

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W-WNW swell will continue to push in to OC on Tuesday but will fade a couple of notches as the swell backs down. Look for the average W facing breaks to hold around chest-shoulder high. Standout WNW-NW facing breaks, mostly through North County, will have some shoulder-head high waves with some overhead+ sets still mixing in on the lower tides.

Shapewise the beach breaks aren’t fairing so well on this swell, lots of lined-up closeouts at spots with direct exposure. Points and reefs will continue to have the best shape, but there aren’t many of them with good exposure to the swell…so it will be one of those days where you have to sacrifice size for shape. I guess there are worse problems to have.

Winds look good…mostly light and variable to light offshore for the morning…then variable onshore starting around brunchtime and holding through the afternoon. Keep an eye on conditions around sunset…it looks like those winds may lay down as the sun starts to slip out.

Here are the tides…

01/12/2010 Tuesday
12:40AM LST 2.3 L
06:48AM LST 5.7 H
02:19PM LST -0.8 L
08:46PM LST 3.6 H