FIRING — DAWN GLASS
Tippers
~5:30–7:30am · 7' Skindog Ova
🌊 No shift on the calendar today — dawn's wide open

A long-period SW/SSW groundswell (206–215° @ 16.7s) is holding at ~2.3ft on the coastal buoys — Wavecast called today the peak of this run, "occasional head high pluses" on standouts. Wind is glassy through dawn, sea breeze fills by 9am. Tide is dropping off this morning's 2.8ft high toward a 2.2ft low at 10:17am. Windansea is running the same mechanics if you want more punch and don't mind the La Jolla drive.

Data from pull Thu Jul 9, ~6:15am PDT (morning brief) · buoys + NOAA + NWS + Open-Meteo + Wavecast (stale, Tue post). Surfline skipped — automated run, no browser bridge.

Condition Gauges — dawn window, ~5:30–7:30am

Tide — Thursday July 9 (La Jolla 9410230)

optimal tide window (low-to-mid) Chris's session windows tide height

Stoke Meter

Tippers and Windansea score the mechanics equally — reef-over-beach-break plus Tippers' shorter Carlsbad drive and lighter localism break the tie. Ponto trails: 16.7s trips its closeout-risk rule on the straight bars, and without Surfline this run there's no confirmation of the combo-swell exception that saved it on 7/7.

Days to Watch

Fri–Sun Jul 10–13 — same SSW angle (198–202°) holds all weekend as period eases from 12.9s to 11.5s and size settles to ~2.2–2.4ft — smaller, cleaner, more forgiving than today's peak. Wavecast's last post (still showing Tue 7/7, hadn't refreshed for today by 6:15am) called for a gradual decline into the weekend, consistent with the buoy trend.