Update on the Monterey conditions, anyone?

[mikeguerrero]

yeah, those reports really missed the mark. We went down yesterday (Sunday) and dove Monastery. It was flat, no waves and you could easily walk out of the water!! Viz was good - 40 ft or more. A little surge, but not much. Overall it turned out to be a great day of diving.

We checked out the conditions at Copper Roof House and Butterfly before heading over to Monastery and over there is was crap with massive waves breaking - i.e. undiveable.

Just amazing... I guess you just have to go down and look at the beach and see if the swells are crashing up on the shore...

I usually will look at the live cam in Monterey and call the shops and then make my way down... Have been really lucky with that...

However, that never says anything about viz...

 

[Chuck Tribolet]

yeah, those reports really missed the mark. We went down yesterday (Sunday) and dove Monastery. It was flat, no waves and you could easily walk out of the water!! Viz was good - 40 ft or more. A little surge, but not much. Overall it turned out to be a great day of diving.

We checked out the conditions at Copper Roof House and Butterfly before heading over to Monastery and over there is was crap with massive waves breaking - i.e. undiveable.

Direction counts. The usual swell is NW. This was W, and Monastery
got protection from Pt. Lobos.