FIRING — DAWN GLASS
Tippers
6–8am · 7' Skindog Ova
🌊 No shift tomorrow — dawn's wide open (VO2 session penciled in too, sequence your call)

The long-period SSW groundswell is easing but still lining up — 202° @ 12.8s, 3–4ft faces. Winds are calm overnight and stay light through 9am before the sea breeze fills in — a clean dawn glass window. Tide is rising from a 1am low through a 3ft high at 7:39am, so dawn sessions sit on a gentle incoming push. South Ponto is a strong backup on the same swell and window.

Data from pull Thu Jul 9, ~7:35pm PDT (evening call) · buoys + NOAA + NWS + Open-Meteo + Wavecast (stale, Tue post). Surfline skipped — Chrome/CDP bridge unresponsive.

Condition Gauges — dawn window, 6–8am

Tide — Friday July 10 (La Jolla 9410230)

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

Stoke Meter

Tippers, South Ponto, and Windansea all clear the same swell-angle/period/wind/tide gates on paper — Tippers gets the nod for its kelp-groomed reef lining the long-period S up into forgiving rights, plus the shorter Carlsbad drive over Windansea's La Jolla localism. Blacks and Oceanside Harbor miss their angle/period gates entirely on this S-only swell.

Days to Watch

Sat–Mon Jul 11–13 — same SSW angle (191–200°) holds through the weekend as period eases from 11.9s to 12.5s and size settles to ~1.8–2.3ft — smaller, cleaner, more forgiving than tomorrow. Wavecast's last fetch was still showing the Tue 7/7 post (hadn't refreshed by tonight's pull) but flags a possible hurricane swell around 7/19 — too far out to act on yet.