Los Angeles Surf Forecast - Waves for the Weekend - 1/16 - 1/17/10

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Still lots of surf on tap for the weekend despite the dip in WNW energy on Saturday. Sunday will actually come up a touch as a new WNW swell (280-300) comes in to reinforce the first swell.

North County W facing spots will continue to hold around the chest-shoulder high range over both days…along with a few head high (and slightly bigger) sets showing at the standouts.

South Bay spots will continue to be be in the head high to overhead range pretty consistently…with some sets going a couple feet overhead at the standout breaks. With the size dipping down, and the periods shortening up it looks like there might be a few more makeable sections on the right tides.

Weatherwise look for light and variable winds through early Saturday and only marginal onshore flow for the afternoon. Sunday will start out with light/variable winds as well but S-SSE winds and increasingly cloudy skies will move in through the afternoon. Rain will be coming as well but it looks like heavy stuff will start after sundown.

Here are the tides…

01/16/2010 Saturday
03:06AM LST 2.0 L
09:12AM LST 5.6 H
04:16PM LST -0.5 L
10:42PM LST 4.0 H

01/17/2010 Sunday
03:41AM LST 1.9 L
09:43AM LST 5.3 H
04:41PM LST -0.3 L
11:09PM LST 4.1 H