Los Angeles Surf Forecast - Waves for the weekend - 1/09-1/10/10

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The swell fills in overnight and will drive up wave heights throughout the county as we head into Saturday...Sunday though will be the biggest day as another swell mixes in with the first one.

Up in North County...the swell will be West enough to push some new waves into the region. On Saturday look for most breaks to build into the chest-shoulder high range with some bigger inconsistent overhead waves showing at the better winter spots out near the edge of the county. By Sunday the average spots will be more consistently in shoulder-head high surf. The standouts will see consistent shoulder high to overhead waves with sets going a couple of feet overhead at times.

The South Bay has some really good exposure to these two swells so expect the majority of the energy to hit down that way. On Saturday average spots will be in the shoulder-overhead+ range…maybe a plus now and then on the better parts of the tide swing. The top breaks will be running head high to a couple of feet overhead pretty consistently with some sets going well overhead. By Sunday the average breaks jump up into the head high to a couple of feet overhead range…top spots see well-overhead surf with some occasional double-overhead bombers mixing in. Shape at the beach breaks isn’t going to be great lots of closeouts ( I know, I know…Really there will be closeouts in the South Bay? Wow there is a newsflash Adam)…so it might be worth hunting around to find something that can break out a corner here and there.

Winds look good…mostly light offshore for the mornings and just a light/variable onshore pushing through in the afternoons. Good chance for those winds to lay down as the sun sets.

Here are the tides…

01/09/2010 Saturday
04:39AM LST 5.4 H
12:14PM LST 0.1 L
06:47PM LST 3.1 H
10:52PM LST 2.4 L

01/10/2010 Sunday
05:32AM LST 5.6 H
01:05PM LST -0.3 L
07:45PM LST 3.4 H
11:53PM LST 2.4 L