Thursday, November 18, 2010

Still no surf today ... Went to Sands and Devereux a little after 2pm but it was flat as The Great Lakes. I took this screenshot of MagicSeaweed on my phone, because I was just curious to see what they were calling for.

Magic seaweed was giving today three stars ... 4 ft. at 13 seconds ... HA yeah right ...
Terribly innacurate!
This is why you can't trust a surf forecasting website based out of the UK. This is obviously not 3 star worthy:
This wave was the "biggest" of the 15 minutes I sat and watched the surf today (Sands).
There was actually one guy out way down the beach, but he was catching ankle high waves that lasted no longer then two seconds.. Woohooo, good for him... At least someone was stoked to surf.

Here's Devereux .... low tide, super small, barely ankle high ... nobody out:
Nobody out, barely ankle high (Devereux).


The next swell should arrive on Sunday but unless you go up to Jalama, or down to Ventura, don't expect much surf.

The longterm forecast is also looking pretty dismal. We are entering a pattern that generally produces poor surf for the long run. El Nino was great to us last year ... unfortunately we get to deal with a La Nina this year which means that the Jetstream and Stormtrack will keep storms at higher latitudes and produce steeper swell angles that will just bypass Santa Barbara.

I'm really itching to see some good waves soon, nobody wants to read a blog about small surf!

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