Animation of the four solid South Pacific swells headed to the Americas. Notice the strongest of the lot comes last.
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These first swells are roughly five to ten degrees more W in direction than the ones that follow. This will help areas like Northern Costa Rica and parts of Northern Mexico, although the swells are still too south for the Riviera Nayarit region north of Puerto Vallarta. The California zones that prefer more west than south like San Diego and Santa Cruz should get some waves from the SW/SSW swell direction. Most California spots top out in the fun range, with the summertime standouts seeing a bit more size. Conditions in the morning are looking generally favorable for the rest of the workweek, too. Wind doesn’t look as good to start the weekend for at least some areas but there should be some windo
Mechanics of Shidashita, Japan
Photo: Pedro Gomes
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Shidashita Beach will host the 2021 Tokyo Summer Olympic Games’ first surfing event (After being postponed last summer.) Known as “Shida” for short, this is one of Japan’s most popular beaches and one of the closest surf spots to Tokyo with a series of groins and shifty beachbreak peaks waiting a mere 60-mile ride from the megalopolis across the Chiba Peninsula.
While the Olympic Games will come to Japan during the slower months for surf (surf schedule: July 5-August 1) this is also when tropical activity picks up in the Northwest Pacific. Surfline’s Forecast Team was integral in helping select Shida as the site of the inaugural surfing event here’s what was discovered through our research.
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Southern Hemi swells light up Americas, West Coast through next weekend
Charlie Hutcherson
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Breaks that prefer more west in swell (not straight south) shine this week
Stronger run of south swell starts up middle of next week
Remember the spring fling West Coast surfers had with back-to-back Southern Hemisphere swells at the beginning of April? Days of fun surf, up and down the coast of the Americas (Spring Fling Part 1 | Part 2 | Video)? Yeah, us, too. And of course we’re already pining for more. Luckily, based on current models, that spring fling could turn into full-on summer love story. In other words: there’s heaps of hope for south-swell fueled surf for the rest of the month and beyond. After taking a deep breath for a week or two, the South Pacific just spit out a bevy of swell-makers the last of which could deliver one of the largest south swells we’ll see this year.