June Gloom?

I'm sure you have heard the term.  I imagine you've heard May Grey thrown around a bit, but we made it through last month with very little fog.  A few days ago the forecast was for a marine layer to move in tomorrow and stick around for a week or more.  Well, it started to show this morning but quickly burned off.  The long and the short of it is that we are looking at least a few days of fog coming up.  Depending how you view things, this could be a good or poor forecast, but regardless, here it is.  As the high pressure gradient shifts to our north tonight, the moderate north west winds will subside and a foggy marine layer will move over us for Monday.  It will be chilly.  Highs tomorrow will mid to upper 60s.  We will be lucky to see much of a burn off, and likely the immediate coast will have a grey sky the entire day.  Not exactly beach weather.  Tuesday looks like more of the same, although, there is a slightly better chance for some afternoon sun.  But I would not count on it.  Things change a bit on hump day.

My son and I were just loving watching these crabs hiding in a crevice, patiently awaiting high tide.

Wednesday will be a touch warmer, heating up into to the low 70s, thanks to some light NW winds blowing out the fog by late morning.  Or, at least that is how things look right now.  Decent chance of sunny mornings for the rest of the work week.  Combine that with a chance for light winds and we could be back up into the mid 70s and some decent beach weather for Friday and the coming weekend.    But the big news around town is the arrival of a super long period southern hemi swell that should first roll into town Wednesday afternoon.  We are talking 25 second period swells.  These guys will sneak up on you, so pay attention if you are playing near the waters edge.  While not big by winter standards, we could see some double overhead surf later this week.  And the lulls in between could be long and will be small.  Stay tuned here for you fog and surf updates.