On the open coast if the winds are out of the south, the low cloud and fog areas are expanding or increasing. If the wind is out of the northwest the low cloud and fog areas are contracting or decreasing. Low clouds and fog seem to be in a rhythm they build and then break up. Most of the time the wind would be westerly but because of the spin of the earth the wind flows to the right and becomes northwesterly. If not for the refraction of wave energy and the slowing by friction across the continental shelf our waves would consistently be extremely large.
Waves tend to cancel themselves out.
Rogue wave conditions occur when the jet stream, polar or tropical lies west to east across the North, Central or Southern Pacific Ocean. If polar jet stream is to our north expect calm conditions with chance of south swell. For time period the shorter the interval the smaller the fetch referred to as wind waves, weak waves that usually crumble when breaking.