CRNW Forecast & Rpt of Sat, 2015-0606

Tim & Terry walked up to the Spot around 6a. I was out of sorts from poor sleep so passed. Drove up with some coffee around 715a. Waves were around 3-4 ft at The Rock, 6-8 ft at the Outer Wash, but they did not paddle way out there. Lots of blue in the sky. It has been raining a lot in the afternoon everyday.

We surfed the past two afternoons in 3-4 ft waves, some good to very good ones and many average for the Spot, the Rock. Water is very warm. Yesterday we had to paddle in when the storm became very dark and moving from the land to the sea and lots of thunder. Very spooky.

It has been a bitch paddling in the last 40 yds in all sessions.

  Model Cycle: 2015 JUN 06 06Z         
  Time Zone: GMT - 6 hours             
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             SURF    SURF DIR   SEAS  PERIOD   WIND    WND/DIR
             (ft)       (deg)   (ft)   (sec)   (kts)     (deg)
            -------  --------  -----  ------  -------  -------
6/6    6am   6 - 12   SW 222    6.4    15.9    5 -  6  ESE 111
6/6   12pm   6 - 12   SW 221    6.4    16.0    1 -  2  SSW 192
6/6    6pm   5 - 11   SW 220    6.5    15.3    5 -  7  SSW 196

6/7    6am   5 - 11   SW 221    6.5    15.1    6 -  8  ENE  56
6/7   12pm   5 - 11   SW 222    6.4    15.0    2 -  3  WSW 250
6/7    6pm   6 - 12   SW 216    6.4    16.4    3 -  5  NNW 341

6/8    6am   5 - 11   SW 216    6.3    15.6    5 -  6  ESE 127
6/8   12pm   5 - 11   SW 217    6.1    15.4    3 -  4  SSE 159
6/8    6pm   5 - 10   SW 217    5.9    15.2    2 -  4    S 178

6/9    6am   5 - 10   SW 218    6.1    14.6    4 -  6  SSW 209
6/9   12pm   5 - 10   SW 219    6.2    14.4    6 -  8  SSE 160
6/9    6pm   5 - 10   SW 219    6.2    14.3    6 -  8  SSW 199

6/10   6am   5 - 11   SW 224    7.2    13.6    3 -  5  WSW 248
6/10  12pm   5 - 11   SW 225    6.9    13.4    7 - 10    W 268
6/10   6pm   5 - 10   SW 220    6.6    13.2   10 - 13  WSW 254

6/11   6am   4 -  8   SW 217    5.7    12.7    5 -  6  WSW 252
6/11  12pm   4 -  8   SW 215    5.3    12.7    8 - 11  WSW 250
6/11   6pm   3 -  7   SW 214    5.0    12.6    8 - 11  WSW 244

6/12   6am   3 -  6   SW 213    4.7    12.3    2 -  3   SW 227
6/12  12pm   2 -  4    W 260    4.6     7.3    2 -  3  ESE 104
6/12   6pm   3 -  7  SSW 204    4.4    13.4    4 -  6  ENE  52

6/13  12am   3 -  6  SSW 202    4.0    13.5    4 -  6  NNE  21

Effective Friday afternoon

SHORT TERM FORECAST (through Tuesday, June 9th)
Highlights: SW Southern Hemi swell will rise up further this weekend, continuing into early next week. Also, some secondary WNW swell from Hurricane Blanca will mix in over the next several days.
South Pacific Swell: SW swell (235-205°) will increase further over Saturday, topping out Sunday and holding fairly steady through Monday. Look for head-overhead sets at the better exposed breaks, strongest Saturday afternoon through Tuesday. Standouts will see occasional sets up to double overhead Sun-Mon-Tues, biggest overall on Monday with occasional waves that are even bigger at select magnets (mainly of Northern CR). This swell starts to slowly ease Tuesday, with a gradual fading trend continuing thereafter. NOTE - This swell will be strongest for the northern half of Costa, with partial shadowing by the Galapagos on the southern half.

Tropics: Hurricane Blanca continues to spin offshore from Mainland Mexico, but now tracking north toward Baja Sur, away from Central America. Nonetheless, this storm already pushed out some modest West-WNW swell (270-285°) for well exposed locations of Costa Rica this weekend and early next week. At this point, we're looking at waist-chest occasional shoulder high West sets to show at top exposed breaks Sat-Tues (strongest overall for the Nicoya Peninsula), but mixing in with the more dominant SW energy. NOTE - This will help create some crossed up peaks/bowls at the beachbreaks with a good enough balance to the combo. The Blanca swell is looking to fade out through the middle of the week. More details on Blanca at the NHC.

SPECIAL NOTE: Models indicate that we may see an area of low pressure develop just offshore from Central America over the next few days. Not only would this low affect local wind/weather conditions this weekend and early next week, but it may also kick up a decent size short period SW windswell for Tues/Wed the 9th-10th, building over Monday. Mixing with the other swells, many spots will be rather jumbled. Beachbreaks likely the call.

EXTENDED FORECAST (Wednesday, June 10th and beyond)
Highlights: Things slow down a bit for the second half of next week+. SPAC looks to take a breather for the next few days or so. However, not completely shutting off with modest pulses still moving in.
South Pacific Swell: The SW swell discussed in the SHORT TERM section above will ease through the second half of next week, lingering through the weekend and into the week of the 15th with modest mid period SW shifting SSW-South swell. This is looking to keep up surf in mainly the waist-chest to shoulder high zone through that time for standout exposed breaks.

Further out - We have a couple small-scale to locally fun size Southern Hemi swells popping up on the super long-range radar. 1) Overlapping South and SW swells for the 15th-17th. 2) SW swell for the 19th-22nd. Stay posted for updates, as those are still pending development.