Los Angeles Surf Forecast - For Wednesday - 1/13/10

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Lots of waves on tap for Wednesday...the new W-WNW swell will be filling in fast through the morning but won’t really peak until later in the afternoon.

North County spots with W exposure will be in the shoulder-head high range with some sets going a couple of feet+ overhead at times, particularly through the lower afternoon tides. It looks like there will be enough energy wrapping around the corners that, if you are looking for smaller surf, you might check out breaks that are normally more of a summertime thing…there will probably be a few fun ones sneaking in.

The South Bay will see some solid size…the W-WNW facing breaks will be consistently overhead to well overhead once the swell gets established in the afternoon. The standout spots will see waves going several feet overhead to double overhead (maybe bigger at times) once the tide evens out. Expect the beach breaks to be lovely walls of death…so points/reefs that can handle the swell will be the best call shapewise.

Light and variable to slightly offshore/sideshore winds set up clean conditions for the morning. Some scattered drizzle and WNW-NW winds around 10-15 knots move in through the afternoon.

01/13/2010 Wednesday
01:24AM LST 2.3 L
07:36AM LST 5.9 H
02:53PM LST -0.8 L
09:25PM LST 3.8 H