In much of the world where winter means shoveling feet of snow and layering down jackets to stay warm, what happens to the weather in coastal Southern California from late November through early March is an insult to the word. That we often call sixty-five-degree mornings “sweater weather” is downright comical in, say, New York. But to be clear here, for SoCal surfers, winter signifies a seasonal shift from dependence on Southern Hemi energy to action in the North Pacific, which is when areas around Santa Barbara awaken from their summer slumber.
Bobby Martinez knows a thing or two about embracing winter – or, at least, Southern California’s interpretation of it. And watching the man thread tubes in and around home will quickly have you pining for chillier mornings.
