CRNW Forecast of Mon 2015-0216

One nice head+ swell hit CR about one week ago and more is arriving. Just a hopeful glimmer into our future.

  Model Cycle: 2015 FEB 16 06Z         
  Time Zone: GMT - 6 hours             
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             SURF    SURF DIR   SEAS  PERIOD   WIND    WND/DIR
             (ft)       (deg)   (ft)   (sec)   (kts)     (deg)
            -------  --------  -----  ------  -------  -------
2/16   6am   5 - 10   SW 221    5.9    14.9   14 - 19  ENE  50
2/16  12pm   4 -  9   SW 219    5.2    14.6    3 -  4  NNE  27
2/16   6pm   3 -  7   SW 217    4.4    14.6    7 - 10  ENE  55

2/17   6am   4 -  8  WSW 235    4.7    15.4   12 - 16  ENE  61
2/17  12pm   3 -  6   SW 218    4.1    13.8    7 -  9  SSW 203
2/17   6pm   3 -  6   SW 220    3.7    13.9    3 -  5   SW 220

2/18   6am   2 -  5   SW 222    3.5    13.8    8 - 11   NE  37
2/18  12pm   2 -  5   SW 225    3.5    13.9    7 - 10  WNW 302
2/18   6pm   3 -  6    W 263    3.9    14.3    5 -  7  SSE 160

2/19   6am   3 -  7    W 261    4.7    13.9   15 - 21   NE  42
2/19  12pm   3 -  7    W 260    4.6    13.4   10 - 13   NE  32
2/19   6pm   3 -  6  WSW 256    4.0    13.4    7 -  9  ESE 108

2/20   6am   4 -  9   SW 211    5.0    16.6   15 - 20   NE  44
2/20  12pm   4 -  9  SSW 206    4.9    16.2   10 - 14   NE  45
2/20   6pm   4 -  9   SW 210    5.0    15.6   12 - 17   NE  49

2/21   6am   5 - 10  SSW 208    5.6    15.0   15 - 20  ENE  52
2/21  12pm   4 -  8  SSW 208    5.0    14.6    7 - 10  ENE  64
2/21   6pm   3 -  7  SSW 208    4.6    14.4    9 - 12  ENE  59

2/22   6am   5 - 11   SW 213    5.6    16.5   18 - 24  ENE  59
2/22  12pm   4 -  8   SW 226    4.7    15.6    6 -  8   SE 144
2/22   6pm   4 -  8   SW 213    4.6    15.3    7 -  9   SW 224

From SolSpot: Long-Range Surf forecast Central America and Mainland Mexico
South Pacific Swell Forecast
Earlier this week a couple of storms moved away from New Zealand driving some SW (210-220) energy that will likely arrive on Thursday.  It’s going to be small to start, but those sames storms have been tracking across the South Pacific and will get some better trajectory as they have moved south of the Pitcairn and Easter Islands over the weekend.

The mix of SSW-SW (200-220) energy will pick up Friday and could bring 3-4 feet of deepwater swell to the region for the start of next weekend.  Shadowed areas might not see quite as much of a jump in surf, but the better exposed standouts could see the 15 to 17-second swell producing chest to overhead+ surf possibly bigger late Friday and Saturday.  More swell is expected to pile on from the S-SSW (180-200) through the weekend helping to maintain size, and in a few cases increase the surf through the start of the following week.

More background energy moves out from under New Zealand early to midweek that will send background swell from the SSW-SW (200-250) starting around the 24th.

As of Friday, 2/13/15: