| February Overview | 1998 Overview |
| Date/Time: | Tuesday, February 3rd, 9:00 am - 10:00 am |
| Location: | Campus Point / Goleta Beach |
| Weather: | Windy, wet, wooly. Variable winds at the moment, howling southeasterlies all night. Forecasts is for westerlies by the afternoon. |
| Conditions: | Stormy and peaky but nothing that could be called 'chop'. |
| Swell: | Holding west groundswell, 16' at 17 s from 285, coupled with a strong southeasterly windswell. |
| Surf: | Big, brown, spitting barrels, breaking like a series of shifty beach peaks everywhere, southeast swell dominating and obscuring the underlying groundswell. Looks around overhead but hard to tell. |
| Comments: |
Sideways rain against our window all last night; this morning
was a carnage scene with trees stripped bare. The Goleta wetland
and slough are capping nearly to the brim and the local creeks are
mere inches from overtopping our roads, which are already covered
in palm fronds and eucalyptus limbs.
Quite a scene down at the slough, flowing fast and wide, on the order of several meters per second. Local gulls and pigeons and starlings huddled and wet in the parking lot. Only the gulls are venturing out into the water, playing some sort of game riding the rapids out to sea before flying back up to the top of the slough and riding back down again. 1pm - 3pm update: More of the same at Rincon, ate lunch and waited for the Marine Mammal Center to come by and check on a young sea lion pup that was shivering at the base of the stairs; they never arrived despite repeated calls from me an others. Hope the lil' guy turns out ok. |