Orange County Surf Forecast - Waves for the weekend - 1/09-1/10/10

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Plenty of new waves moving into OC on Saturday…and even more coming through on Sunday. OC isn’t as exposed as some of the other regions but there will still be enough juice making it through the island blockage to make most of the W facing breaks work.

On Saturday expect the average W-WNW spots to see surf in the chest-head high range. The top W-WNW facing breaks through North County will be in the shoulder-overhead range with sets going a couple of feet+ overhead at times. On Sunday those waves will build up a bit more…the average spots will see shoulder-overhead surf with some sets going a couple of feet overhead at breaks with a bit more exposure. The top WNW-WN facing breaks, again mostly through North OC, will be in the head high to a couple of feet overhead range with some sets going several feet overhead at times.

Expect lots of closeouts at the beach breaks…so points and reefs will have the best shape (and the biggest crowds). Like I said in the full forecast…you are probably going to have to sacrifice some shape to get a lighter crowd…fortunately there will be enough waves that it should tire us out pretty fast, maybe help speed up the turnover at the best spots. (We can always wish can’t we?)

Winds look good…mostly light offshore for the mornings and just a light/variable onshore pushing through in the afternoons. Good chance for those winds to lay down around sundown on both days.

Here are the tides…

01/09/2010 Saturday
04:27AM LST 5.3 H
12:11PM LST 0.1 L
06:35PM LST 3.0 H
10:49PM LST 2.3 L

01/10/2010 Sunday
05:20AM LST 5.5 H
01:02PM LST -0.3 L
07:33PM LST 3.3 H
11:50PM LST 2.3 L