La Jolla Visibility Today: Another C, and the Newest Run Is Still Tuesday's

Wednesday morning at the Cove, same story as Tuesday. Nobody has a new number for you yet.

La Jolla visibility today is a C. The beta model has C grade, 10 to 14 feet, medium confidence. That line is the newest one published, stamped Tuesday, Nov 10, at 12:39 p.m. Pacific. No Wednesday run is in the file as of this post. A C is the middle letter, and a dozen feet is the middle of the range. Medium confidence means it can miss.

The odds are spread out. About 43 percent on the C. About 29 percent on a B. About 17 percent on a D. About 12 percent on an F. Zero on an A. Those are the model's own odds, so mid is mid, not a lock.

Surf in the file is 4.33 feet, up from Monday's 3.81. The main swell is 3.61 feet out of the west at 10.2 seconds. Under it sits 1.9 feet of south-southwest swell at 12.1 seconds. Period is the seconds between waves. The model flags the surf as enough to stir the shallows, and it likes the longer period because it is easier to time than short chop.

Tide range is 6.33 feet, with a low of minus 0.41. The model reads Tuesday's tide as rising toward a high at 10:26 p.m., and calls that a good sign for cleaner water moving in. The file gives no tide times for Wednesday, so check a tide table for your own window.

Wind in the file is light early. It is 1.2 mph at 9 a.m. and 1 mph at 10, then builds to 10 mph by 3 p.m. Gusts top out at 11.6 mph. That afternoon wind can put texture on the surface.

The NDBC buoy, station 46254, reads 75.7 degrees. The model's water estimate is 74.8. The buoy is the surface, not the whole column. Rain is zero today and zero over the last week.

The newest Scripps Pier snapshot is Tuesday's noon slot, captured at 12:29 p.m. The grader failed, so there is no camera grade. Wednesday's frames are not in yet.

The forecast file does not include a county water advisory list. If the Cove was the plan, check the county map before you kit up.

Go early and plan on about a dozen feet. Full numbers are on the La Jolla forecast page.

Our vis model is in beta and still being validated, so treat the grade as odds, not a promise.