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El Nino is growing up! After years and years of forecasts, the Little Boy is finally throwing his first temper tantrum. Over the next week, Newport is expected to get several inches of rain, as the first of the El Nino storm bands begin to hit California’s coastline. With these storms comes big surf, and this week we are going to see some big ones– if you can brave the rain to view them! (Wave quality for surfing will be poor, according to Surfline).
While we’ll have some decently sized waves today and they will grow tomorrow, Thursday will be the real beast, generating waves upwards of 12 feet in Newport Beach as a whole:
And of course, we all know what this means for the wedge. Surfline predicts waves hitting over 20 feet tall there, during this time, with 5.7ft high tide hitting at 6:49am on Thursday:
Currently, it doesn’t look like it will be raining in the early morning on Thursday– but we all know how that can change. So if you can handle the rain, the wind, and the cold, the waves should be providing quite the show on Thursday. I’ll definitely be checking them out!
