🌊 Day off — dawn's wide open (VO2 #2 also on tap tomorrow, sequence it)
A long-period SSW groundswell is easing but still delivering — 202° @ 12.8s by tomorrow 8am, right in Tippers' prime window, pushing 3–4ft faces. Wind is calm-to-light (≤5mph) from before dawn through 9am, tide is rising off a 1am low into a 3ft high at 7:39am — a clean low-to-mid push the whole session. South Ponto is right behind it on the same swell if the reef's packed.
Data from pull Thu Jul 9, ~7:35pm PDT (evening call, target tomorrow AM) · buoys + NOAA + NWS + Open-Meteo. Surfline skipped — Chrome/CDP bridge unresponsive this run.
Condition Gauges — dawn window, ~5:30–9am
Tide — Friday July 10 (La Jolla 9410230)
dawn reef window (rising tide)evening session windowtide height
Stoke Meter
Tippers and Windansea both score the mechanics equally on this angle — reef-over-beach-break plus Tippers' shorter Carlsbad drive and lighter localism break the tie. Ponto trails slightly: its low-to-mid tide cap gets tight right as the 7:39am high rolls in.
Days to Watch
Sat–Sun Jul 11–12 — swell keeps easing (11.9s → 12.5s, 2.2 → 1.8ft) but the same S angle holds, so small clean dawns continue through the weekend. Wavecast's last post (fetched stale, still showing Tue 7/7) flagged a possible hurricane swell around 7/19 — too early to act on, worth a re-check next run.