⚠️ Swing shift tomorrow (2–12am) + VO2 training ~10:30am — this session means ~4hrs sleep; skipping is reasonable
A single S/SSW groundswell (~195–200° @ 12–14s) holds through the morning, easing slowly per Wavecast's "mellow start to the week" call. Wind is dead calm from midnight through 8am — full glass — with the sea breeze not filling until ~9am. Surfline's own forecaster flags first light as a drained low tide (-1.7ft at 3:30am, still only ~-0.6ft at 5:22am sunrise); wait until ~6:45am when the tide's climbed to hip-height and rising, right into Tippers' and Ponto's low-to-mid window.
Data from evening-surf-call pull Sun Jul 12, ~8:35pm PDT, targeting tomorrow · buoys + NOAA + NWS + Open-Meteo + Wavecast (Sun 7:00am post) + Surfline Premium (live Chrome session).
Tippers gets the nod over Ponto on the reef-over-beach-break tiebreak — both score 4-for-4 on the physics, but the long-period S wraps into forgiving lines on the reef instead of the closeout risk a beach break can show. Ponto is the fast fallback if the Tippers pack fills in. Blacks is sitting out: this S swell needs a clean ≥14s read to clear its 4ft-face bar (no canyon multiplier on a S angle, that's W/NW-only), and the period's trending down through 14s right around session time — marginal, not the call.
Days to Watch
Mon–Tue Jul 13–14 — same S/SSW angle holds as period eases toward 11–12s and size settles toward waist-high by Tuesday (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.