Here’s what it looks like today (from the StormSurf website):

And here’s the forecast for a week from today (again from the StormSurf website):

So, using my magical power patented technique of Predictive Interpolation, I see us getting the tender juicy bits of storm system #2 when we arrive, followed by the long period high energy leading edge of storm system #3 nearer the end of the trip.

To summarize for the layman – the water will be wet and there will be much playing in it.

Pura Vida!

Automatically updated from MagicSeaweed!!

Actually, a great circle from 22-degrees to a point on Costa Rica’s pacific coast will put you right near the southern tip of New Zealand, on your common Mercator projection. Check out this map from StormSurf.com – one of my new favorite sites for surf forecasting.

Props to PapaG’s Costa Rica Surf Forecast and Soul Arch Photo in Nosara

Going to want to keep an eye on the stormsurfing.com wave prediction model for the full pacific. Watch the systems build from the southern ocean and work their way over open water to Costa Rica!

More links to Papa G’s Surf Forecast, Nosara/Playa Guiones, Costa Rica
6/30 – Shoulder high, occasionally overhead waves with good to perfect shape
7/1 – Near epic day here. Light offshore winds early, then strong offshore winds with good shape, overhead on the sets
7/3 – Waist to head high, fair shape but weak and slow on full high tide
7/4 – Clean waist to head high waves with good shape.
7/6 – Arrival of a new swell. It is head high with occasional sets that are a few feet overhead (bigger if you are short)
7/7 – Rain this morning but the skies cleared, the wind turned offshore for a while and it turned out to be a decent session
7/8 – Glassy head high waves with good shape. More than a few cover ups
7/10 – Low tide DP, swell filled in by 8 then chest to a foot overhead with good shape
7/11 – Super clean morning with mild offshore winds, head high glass

6/16 – Clean, shoulder high to several feet overhead with good shape
6/17 – Waves were head high to occasionally 4 feet over. Shape was good on the high tide and began to section out as the tide dropped
6/18 – Overhead to double overhead waves with good shape
6/19 – Overhead waves but poor shape
6/20 – Offshore winds, head high and very occasionally double overhead with good shape. About as good as it gets here.
6/21 – Less size, less clean, more offshore, more closeouts
6/22 – Sunny skies, no wind, and waist to head high waves.
6/23 – Shoulder to occasionally head high with fair shape
6/27 – Beautiful morning with offshore winds, shoulder to head high with good shape
6/29 – Smaller swell “longboard” day – still looks pretty big to me!