⚠️ Swing shift starts 2:00pm — dawn window already passed by pull time, and the cleaner 4–6pm window falls inside the shift. This is the pre-shift call.
The same S/SSW groundswell (190–199° @ 13–14s) is still holding, right on Wavecast's track of easing toward waist-high by Tuesday — today's the tail of the pulse. Wind's already onshore (W ~9mph) and won't ease back to light until ~4pm, past the shift start. Tide's dropping through the session from ~3.2ft toward 2.6ft — still in Tippers'/Ponto's low-to-mid window, just outgoing instead of the ideal incoming.
Data from daily-surf-brief re-pull Mon Jul 13, ~11:10am PDT · buoys + NOAA + NWS + Open-Meteo + Wavecast (Sun 7:00am post, re-checked live). Surfline not re-pulled this run (headless, no Chrome bridge).
Tippers gets the nod over Ponto on the reef-over-beach-break tiebreak — both score the same 79 today (angle + period Pass, wind + tide Partial), but the kelp takes the edge off the midday onshore texture better than Ponto's open bars. Windansea actually scores highest on paper (100 — its 4–5:30pm window lines up with light wind and incoming mid-tide) but that window falls inside the 2pm–midnight shift, so it's not reachable today. Blacks and Cliffs are sitting out: no qualifying swell angle/period or face height to clear their inclusion bars.
Days to Watch
Tue Jul 14 — normal glassy dawn window expected if the swing-shift schedule allows an earlier session; swell eases toward waist-high per Wavecast. Wavecast also flags a potential hurricane swell for the weekend of Jul 18–19 — south-facing breaks could see 2–15ft faces at 17–19s from 160–175°, high consistency, depending on storm track. Worth checking back mid-week as models firm up.