Click here for 15-day weather forecast for Samara (15 mi south of Nosara)

Automatically updated from MagicSeaweed!!

So, a 220-degree swell in Costa Rica must come from a place that’s nearly due south on the map, right? Well, yes, if the map is the kind of projection that turns great circles into straight lines (Gnomonic).

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.

My six year old daughter Olivia says “that wave has your name all over it.” Yes, those were her exact words. I’ll go with that

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

…but the forecasts only go out 180 hours.

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