West Coast Gets Their Own Valentine Swell (Albeit a Lil Late)
Conditions improve during the week with swell arriving from many sources and directions
Kevin Wallis
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If you’re on the West Coast and feeling a little unloved after Hawaii stole all the attention over Pipeline Valentine Weekend, don’t get too down. You’ll rebound quickly with a week of increasingly fun surf from multiple sources. Many areas will start the week with bouts of onshore wind and unfavorable conditions as a smaller version of those recent Hawaii swells reaches California. But as the surf gradually tapers down from mid to late week, the wind and wave quality will improve from a fun combo of NW and Southern Hemisphere swell at the well-exposed breaks. It won’t be heart-throbbing Pipe, but it should be all the affection you need.