Severe Wx Diminishing

The severe winds and rains that have been pummeling NorCal for the last week are starting to wane. Conditions will be drier and less windy starting this afternoon and heading into the new week. But we are still in the prevailing storm track for at least another week.

Our friends in CenCal (Ventura and Santa Barbara area) and SoCal are about to experience the high winds and rain today. NWS has issued all manner of high wind, rain, surf, rip current, etc. advisories for SoCal. Hopefully the burn areas will not see any radical earth movement based upon the recent fires and the over saturated ground.

If the winds pull back a lot today and tonight, perhaps some waves in the morning? The nearshore buoy is registering 16 feet at 9 seconds as a result of the strong S/SE winds. That will surely go away when the winds die down. But there might be enough residual swell left to produce some fun ones. There is also NW wind blowing down the coast from the Gulf to CA...that might send some waves.

Will keep checking swell and conditions. Waiting...wave starved...waiting...