Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Orange County Surf Forecast - for Wednesday - 3/17/2010

Make sure to read the full region forecast it has more complete details on the incoming swell and regional conditions. Click here for the full forecast http://www.socalsurf.com/.

The swell-direction on the new WNW-NW swell is a bit too steep for most of Orange County…but it does have some longer-periods, which will help to wrap in some of the energy into the top NW spots (mostly in North County).

Most of the county is going to have to squeeze its surf out of the fringe energy of the WNW-NW swell and the smaller, but much better aimed, S-SW swell. Average spots are going to hold around knee-waist high with some inconsistent chest high waves on the lower tides. Standout NW facing breaks and excellent NW/S-SW combo spots will have more chest-shoulder high waves with some rare bigger sets mixing it up.

Winds and weather look pretty nice again on Wednesday. Mostly sunny skies with some light/variable to light offshore winds on tap for the morning. Variable onshore winds around the 10-14 knot range will develop through the afternoon.

Here are the tides…

03/17/2010 Wednesday
04:46AM LDT 0.3 L
10:41AM LDT 4.1 H
04:36PM LDT 0.8 L
10:41PM LDT 5.0 H

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