Ventura County Surf Forecast - For Friday - 1/08/10

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Definitely some new waves coming through in the morning…the swell will be showing a bit more up this way thanks to the county being a little further west than the counties further south. I expect the average spots to be running in the chest-head high range pretty consistently through the morning, particularly after the tide drops down a bit from the pre-dawn high tide. The top WNW-NW spots, mostly through the South Half of the county, will be in the shoulder-overhead range with some sets going a couple of feet overhead by the afternoon. Points/Reefs will have the best shape…but some of the beach breaks that have something to break up the swell might be worth a look if you can’t handle the point-break crowds.

Winds look good…E around 10-15 knots for the morning and then downshifting a couple of notches but staying sort of variable (even variable offshore/sideshore) for the afternoon. Looks like a really good chance that it will stay pretty clean and surfable throughout the day.


Here are the tides…

01/08/2010 Friday
03:47AM LST 5.2 H
11:21AM LST 0.7 L
05:23PM LST 2.8 H
09:55PM LST 2.1 L