Surfline.com forcaster Jonathan Warren gives us a look at what the next week’s waves will look like:
A semi-clean mix of easing NW swell and small, peaking SW swell prevails this afternoon. Better breaks through the region have knee-waist high surf, with sets to chest/shoulder high for top spots. Most breaks are looking a little soft, and semi-walled, with pick and choose corners as the tide fills in to a late afternoon high. This morning’s dawn patrol: Clean, scattered peaks, with some fun, lined-up corners on offer.
A weak trough of low pressure today and Thursday will approach and move through Southern California. Today, we’ll continue to see calm-to-light variable wind, with mostly sunny skies and a light afternoon sea breeze.
As the weak front nears the coast Wednesday night and Thursday morning, cloud cover will build over the region with calm to light variable to light south-southwesterly flow. Also, there’s a slight chance for light rain.
By Thursday afternoon, the trough moves out with strong high pressure filling in, bringing a rise of breezy west-northwesterly flow as well as clearing cooler weather.
By Friday and the weekend, we’re expecting cooler temps and mostly sunny skies, as well as light morning winds and moderate afternoon sea breezes.
Overall, we’ll see a gradual decreasing trend in the surf. On Wednesday, the old northwest swell continues to slowly fade as a modest southwest swell holds up.

Most of the better breaks throughout Orange County will offer inconsistent two-foot-to-three-foot-plus (knee-waist high+) surf with top southwesterly exposed spots in the southern half of the county producing occasional bigger waves up to four-foot (chest high).
Over Thursday, both northwest and southwest swells will be on the decline as only top spots produce inconsistent two-foot-to-three-foot (knee-waist high) sets. By Friday, the old swells will continue to ease out as a small northwest wind swell shows, keeping up one-foot-to-two-foot occasional three-foot waves.
Looking further out, the surf will be minimal over the weekend with only one-foot-to-two-foot (ankle-knee high) traces showing at best throughout the region. However, better surf is lining up for next week. Check out Surfline.com for more details and the long-range outlook.













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