South Ocean Beach Surf Report & Forecast

Surf Report, Surf Forecast & Surf Cam

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Current Surf Conditions

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Condition Rating

LOTUS Forecast
POOR TO FAIR

Surf Height

5-7FT

Head to 2ft overhead

LOTUS Forecast

Swell

3.4FT20s
SSW202º
4.2FT8s
WNW293º
1.3FT13s
SW223º
LOTUS Forecast

Wind

6KTSW

6kts gusts, Onshore

Model Forecast
Satellite map of location

Tide

1.6FT

Temperature

51°F

spotName Wind & Weather
51ºF

4/3mm wetsuit

Chris Borg

San Francisco Forecast

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Today

Healthy SSW Southern Hemi maxes out today, some WNW pulse joins in. Morning onshores are lightest.

Dawn-10:00AM: Selective, long-period SSW Southern Hemi swell peaks, as a modest scale WNW swell shows, for head high to several feet overhead surf. Light+ WSW early morning winds for decent conditions. More onshores later morning.

Afternoon Outlook: Look for more size back half of the day as SSW swell peaks. More onshore WNW winds then too for a bumpy afternoon.

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South Ocean Beach Surf Guide

Ocean Beach has many, many moods, from the manic ecstasy of clear, blue offshore fall days to the gloom and doom of stormy winter, windy spring and gray summer. There is no stretch of ocean in California that changes as much from hour to hour, day to day and season to season as Ocean Beach.

When Ocean Beach is on, you will see three miles of shifting, meaty, dark-green offshore peaks, from head-high to triple-overhead, cannonading the surf zone from south, west and north. A perfect day... 
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