Rosa rapidly intensified into a Category 3 storm this evening with 110kt sustained winds and gusts to 135kt. Rosa is showing more of a defined eye in satellite imagery and expected to intensify more over the next 24hrs, before encountering cooler surface waters and increased wind shear.

Rosa is already within the SoCal and Baja swell window and will provide surf to these regions over the coming days. Rosa is around 570 miles southwest of the tip of Baja, heading west at nine knots. This motion is expected into Friday before a turn to the northwest then northeast occurs over the weekend. Rosa is forecast to make this turn while near peak strength, taking a more favorable northwest-northerly track for swell production. Overall, it’s likely that Rosa will take a good to eventually excellent track as a medium size, strong storm.

While Hurricane Rosa will deliver swell to SoCal and Baja, there are increasing concerns of a landfalling cyclone, plus the impacts of the storm's remnants. Rosa is expected to quickly weaken to a tropical storm before landfall first half of next week. Portions of Baja could begin feeling tropical storm force winds over the second half of weekend with a landfall in Northern Baja or Mexico around Tuesday. The system could then bring weather and rain to Southern California and the Southwest U.S.

We’re now a couple weeks past the peak of hurricane season, but the tropics are alive and well in both the East Pacific and Atlantic basins. Hurricane Rosa is expected to continue strengthening off Baja over the next couple of days while taking a great track for SoCal swell production.

The chances for tropical SSE/S swell from Hurricane Rosa are increasing. The timing of the event is later this weekend through early next week, but only select areas will see appreciable swell due to the anticipated steep swell direction.

The Venice Surf-A-Thon turns 25 this year! One quarter century of surfing, music, art, good fun and much more! The Venice Surf-A-Thon is more than a just a surf contest!

On Thursday September 26, there will be the Venice Surf-A-Thon Sponsor/Volunteer Appreciation Night & Art Show.

Check out a few of the artists's work in the show. Come on out and celebrate the people that have made and make this one of a kind event happen every year! You may or may not know that Venice Surf-A-Thon sponsors not only many surfers that cannot afford the entry fee to the contest but also a small school in Minadano P.I. Please come on out celebrate the volunteers, purchase some very unique and fine art and help out a few kids receive a basic education in a jungle very far away.

Where: Mercedes Bar and Grill
14 Washington Blvd
Venice, CA 90247


Time 6:30 pm

Come hang Thursday night with Dane Reynolds and Reverberation Radio at Channel Islands' new Santa Monica flagship.
Have a night on the bubbly this evening, premiering The Electric Acid Surfboard Test with Dane and the boys at Channel Islands at their beautiful new flagship store in Santa Monica, located at 1460 4th Street. As the flyer advertises, we can promise Food, Beer, Music, and Good Times. The boys from Reverberation Radio will be setting the vibes, and the film will kick off after dark.

Boarding for Breast Cancer (B4BC) will host their 11th Annual Skate the Coast presented by Suja on September 29, 2018 - a 19 mile Skate - Bike - Roll from Santa Monica to Redondo Beach to support B4BC's education, prevention and survivorship programs. The event kicks-off on Friday evening Sept 28 with a registration party at Arbor Collective in Venice with live music, BBQ by Traeger Grills, plenty of Suja Juices and 10 Barrel Beers and a huge silent auction + raffle. Saturday September 29 participants will skate-bike-roll along the coast of Los Angeles starting at the Santa Monica Pier and ending at Dive-n-Surf in Redondo Beach. Participants of all ages and abilities are welcome.

For more info on how to fundraise click the link below :
Boarding for Breast Cancer (B4BC)

Surf heights for northern, central and southern California on Wednesday.

Fun size mix of NW windswell and SSW swell mid week
Generally favorable morning winds for most areas
EPAC Tropics alive, TS Rosa; more possible late week
SPAC still delivering; NPAC may fire up here in a few days

Mark your calendars, mateys. ZJ Boarding House announced the daate for this year's Haunted Heats Surf Contest. It's happening on Oct 27th, with registration opening on Oct. 1st. 💀 Can’t wait to see what kind of costumes and fake blood they will conjure up.

Check out what went down last year: 2017 Haunted Heats Surf Contest.

Video promos for this "event" have been popping up off and on for like 2 years now, here's the newest one that went online this week:

The Malibu NoseRiding Invitational is a Internet media event planned for one perfect day forecast by the best wave-trackers in the world. Who, among eight world-class professional female noseriders, and eight world-class professional male noseriders, will accumulate the most nose-time on a series of waves at world famous Malibu Surfrider Beach?

More info over at Malibu NoseRiding Invitational website

Some small waves Sunday at the Venice Pier. These photos were shot by Six12 Media. These are just some of the photos. If you were out there, you probably got some surfing shots in the complete photo gallery, check them out, the link is down below.












You can find a few more photos from this session, all full size and in high-resolution, in this photo gallery:

Venice Pier - Sunday 9-23-2018 Photo Gallery

If you were out there, we probably got some cool surfing shots of you, go check them out!


Wanna see photos from previous days at this and other local surf spots?
Click Surf Spot Galleries and look for the spot and then the date.