A little more normal lately.

It kind of feels good to have that fog linger around during the morning hours and a swift north west breeze building through the afternoon.  Like clam chowder, it is comforting.  I know this.  This is home.  Not quite sure what all that sunshine, warm temps and calm winds was about.  Sure, it was nice, but seriously, it almost makes you expect that kind of stuff.  In fact, with our family trip east coming up, we want to escape the fog, not escape the spectacularly perfect weather that seemed to define most of this past June.  July knows what the central coast is all about and it delivers.  So, for the near term, we can expect some grey mornings.  No fear though, I still don't see a persistent pattern of week long fog on the charts.  Smooth sailing for now.  Here are the details.

This place is a rental with a view.  Over the Hook, Santa Cruz.

High of about 72 today.  Low of near 55.  And that should do it through at least Tuesday.  We might see a change after that.  This afternoon we have some brisk northwest wind pumping up the local waves.  Too bad the wind is so near, causing a fair amount if junk and chop in the water.  We kind of go through a short south flow cycle over the next few days.  Fog might hang out a bit longer tomorrow, as we see slack winds overnight and light westerlies in the afternoon.  Sunday that fog could stick around even longer with a southwest flow over the nearshore waters.  By Monday, light westerlies return and on Tuesday we shift back to the northwest flow and mostly sun.  See how that works?  Typically, the south flow will settle fog upon us, where a NW wind blows it out.  After that it looks like morning winds will be light, but with a little luck we will be fog free.  So, kind of typical.

As mentioned the wind swell has been building since yesterday and should peak some time today.  Could be good in the morning at select spots that work the nw angle and are protected enough from the chop.  Where those waves will be fading over the weekend, a few small long period souths overlap keeping us in ridable surf right up to about the 10th or so.  After that the south Pacific looks like it will take a break for a bit.  And his time of year, you can't really count on much out of the north.  So, it may be that time of year you get the bike out and starting pushing the pedal.  High summer.  Can't complain, as it has been a great run.

Just want to note to you all that soon we head east for a 3 week tour.  Doubt I'll make much time to update this page much before August.  Hell, I'll be thinking about weather 3000 miles away.  But if I see something of interest, I'll try to post up here and let you know about.  And I'll get at least one more update before we head out of town.  But once I am gone, I can no longer look out the window and see what is happening in real time, which is a great source of information.  Anyway, hope you had a greta holiday and continue to enjoy the summer.