Atlantic Beach Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright folks, Rusty here. Let’s have a look at what’s comin’ our way.

Alright, let's be straight with you – this is a tough stretch for Atlantic Beach. The next week and a half are almost a total write-off. There’s just nothing doing until we get towards the very end of the month. We’ve got a massive gap of quiet, weak conditions to get through first.

From now through the 24th of August, it’s a frustrating run. Tiny swell, messy wind, and just poor surf conditions every day. You’ll see the odd knee-high ripple, but with cross-onshore winds and short-period slop, it’s not worth paddling out for. The combined wave energy barely cracks double digits for most of it – stuck between 17 and 87, which is just weak sauce.

There are two little flickers of hope, though they’re barely worth a mention. On the morning of Friday the 21st and again on Tuesday the 25th, we get a glassy window, but the swell is only 1ft to 2ft with hardly any push. The 21st has a score of 1/10 on the surfable-but-ordinary scale, and the 25th is even worse. Not really a recommendation, just a moment of calm on a flat ocean.

Now, finally, things get a bit more interesting toward the very end of the outlook. Thursday the 27th of August sees some uptick in energy, with combined energy jumping to 193, then up to 239, but the winds are strong and cross-onshore, so it’s still messy. Not your day.

The standout, if you can call it that, is Saturday the 29th of August. That morning we’ve got a clean little pulse arriving: 4ft from the SSE with a 13-second period, and crucially, a cross-offshore wind from the ENE at 9 mph. That’ll make for some clean-faced waves. The combined energy is 566 – solid moderate power. In the afternoon the swell ticks up to 5ft, with the same direction and period, and even stronger energy at 698. The wind swings a little more to 12 mph but stays cross-offshore, so it should still be clean and peeling. Even though these are described as marginal, with those conditions, this is by far the best day in the whole window.

The water is sitting at 84° with an anomaly of 0.9°, so about average for this time of year – nothing weird there.

So, to sum it up: you’ve got a long flat spell until the very end of August. The only real surf to get excited about is on Saturday the 29th. It won’t be huge, but it’ll be clean and rideable. Everything else – just leave the board in the car.

Rusty.

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