Swell magnet surf forecast
Registration forms for the Sat. Feb. 19 SB Surf Series contest are available at local surf shops and at southbayboardriders.com. The contest will be sponsored by Dive N' Surf and held in El Porto. A swell week for Super Bowl Welcome February. What I consider our last real month of winter surf should start off with some decent waves and remain in the moderate zone all the way through Super Bowl Sunday. Thursday: A new, long interval swell will build through the day. Things will start off slow for the morning session, but scout sets should start to show later and fill in through the day. This energy has quite a bit of West in it, coming in at a 275-290 degree angle, and should put the best West facing breaks into the well overhead zone by sundown. Conditions will continue to be great into the early afternoon with breezes out of the NE/NNE at 5 to 9 m.p.h. Look for West winds to kick up to 8 to 10 m.p.h. late and continue until sundown. We’ll see a high air temp of 70 degrees. Friday: It should be all systems go. I can’t promise you shape, but that long interval, NW energy will put the top West facing breaks in the overhead to a few feet overhead range. The tide cycle will continue…
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