Orange County Surf Forecast – Monday – A few fun ones as the swell mix fades.

The Swell
Our WNW-NW swell (285-300) and SW swell (200-220) will both be slowly fading throughout the day on Monday.



Waves
Average breaks will be in the waist-chest high range, with a couple of bigger waves on the lower tides in the morning. The standout NW facing spots, mostly through the select spots in North County, will be closer to shoulder-head high on sets. Both size and consistency will drop off as we head into the afternoon and the tide starts to swamp out the fading swell mix.

Sunday the NW’er (285-300) will peak through the morning while the SW swell holds. Average spots will push up into the waist-chest high range with some shoulder high sets. The better combo breaks will see some inconsistent head high sets. The stand NW facing breaks, mostly through North County, will see surf in the shoulder-head high range with overhead sets mixing in on the lower tides.

Winds
Clean conditions on tap for Monday. Mostly light and variable winds with just a few areas of minor texture for the morning. Look for some light/moderate W-WNW winds in the 10-12 knot range for the middle of the day and then lighter winds setting back up as we get close to sundown.

Orange County Tides
11/09/2009 Monday
03:43AM LST 4.0 H
08:42AM LST 2.9 L
02:08PM LST 4.6 H
09:34PM LST 0.2 L

Orange County Surf Forecast – Waves for Wednesday

The Swell
Orange County will see a mix of fading WNW swell (290-300), some background SW energy (200-220), and some local NW windswell that pushes in a bit more by the afternoon.



Waves
The two longer-period swells don’t really mix well for OC thanks to shadowing by the Nearshore Islands. The NW swell hits in mostly North County and the SW’er shows almost exclusively in South County. Since we don’t see that much combo it looks like our surf is going to hold in the knee-high to knee-high+ range at most of the average spots. The standout NW and the standout SW facing spots will be slightly bigger in the knee-waist high range with a few rare chest high sets pushing through on the lower tides. Like I said in the main forecast the tide is going to be an issue…so try and avoid surfing as it peaks if you can.

Winds
Look for light and variable conditions early…but with a touch of onshore flow picking up by midmorning. Generally it will be clean but with a couple of pockets of texture building in at the really wind exposed areas, particularly around the areas of patchy fog that will roll through. W-NW winds 10-15 knots build in through the afternoon.

Orange County Tides
02:40AM LST 2.1 L
08:52AM LST 6.3 H
04:23PM LST -0.7 L
10:50PM LST 3.6 H