Sunday, November 1, 2026
A humpback whale sighting was logged at Moss Landing on iNaturalist, which is the kind of thing that makes a Halloween worth leaving the house for. Nobody needed a costume.
The sea obliged. Saturday was the flattest of the week at NDBC 46026, averaging 3.6 ft where the roughest day had thrown 6.7 ft. What swell there was came long and clean, peaking at a 16-second dominant period at NDBC 46026, energy from weather nobody here saw rather than local chop. Then, from about 7:20 PM, the wind at NDBC 46026 held under 5 kt for 14 hours, a flat surface on a bay that rarely gives one.
That whale is one day gone, and the glass went with it. By 11:20 PM PDT the wind was back to 16 kt, which is today's number and not yours. The National Weather Service gives Sunday rain showers at 61 °F, a sky that belongs to whoever is standing on the beach under it.