| Santa Barbara Area Surf Report | |||
| December Overview | 1999 Overview | ||
| Date/Time: | Tuesday, December 21st, 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm |
| Location: | Stables |
| Weather: | Smoggy, otherwise sunny, with light to moderate side-offshore easterlies. |
| Conditions: | Perfect. |
| Swell: | New WNW groundswell, 10 ft at 20 s from 290 deg on the outside, 5+ ft at 20 s on the inside. |
| Surf: | Head high to overhead, fast and barrelling. |
| Comments: |
Is this really the first day of winter? Warm offshores and
a blanket of smog rolling up from L.A. coupled with a very
long-period swell made it feel like August.
Despite feeling out of shape after more than two weeks since my last session, managed to get a lot of waves and a few trips into backlit golden barrels. Christmas present under my feet -- a new 6'6" squashtail fresh from Channel Islands. Lots of diffuse glare from the smog and bright sun made the waves harder to judge as they rolled in, and I wound up 50 yards behind sections hitting the reef down the line. Best wave I connected all the way through to the showers, fast and steep, hollower behind me as I outran the curl. No drop-ins on any of my waves, and got plenty of them, a wonderful day! |