Beavers Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, Rusty here. Let’s talk about what’s on the cards for Beavers. Honestly, looking at the next couple of weeks, this isn’t a time to get overly excited. We’ve got a run of small, marginal swell and tricky winds that’ll make finding a good wave a bit of a mission.

The water is sitting at about 69°, which is way warmer than normal for this time of year. That’s a wild anomaly – over five and a half degrees warmer than usual. Feels like a bath out there.

The first hint of anything rideable kicks off on Thursday afternoon, the 10th. We’re looking at a clean, cross-off wind from the NW at 12 mph, and a small 2 ft SW groundswell. The period is a solid 16 seconds, so there’s some proper energy for the size – moderate wave energy (327), but the height is tiny. It’s a beginner-friendly size, but it’s just small. Friday and Saturday are even smaller, dropping to 2-2 ft, and the winds get messy with onshore or cross-onshore slop.

Sunday the 13th is where we see a little pulse. The morning has a 4 ft WNW swell, but the period is short at 9 seconds – not much grunt. The wind is light cross, so it’s not terrible. The afternoon gets a bump to 6 ft from the WNW, but the period plummets to 6 seconds. That’s pure windslop, and at 6 ft it’s all chop and no shape. The energy hits 350 (moderate), but with that short period it’s just chunky and messy. Not really a paddle-friendly wave; this setup looks more interesting for kite surfing to be honest.

Then we hit a long dry spell. From Monday the 14th right through to the 25th, we’re looking at a string of poor to marginal days. Swell sits around 1 ft to 3 ft, mostly from the SW or WNW, with periods that are either too short or, ironically, too long for the size. The winds are frequently onshore or cross-onshore. There are a few afternoons with clean cross-off winds from the NW, like on the 19th and 20th of September, but the swell is only 2 ft with a long 18-second period. That long period on a beach-and-reef setup like Beavers means the waves will likely just stand up and close out or roll through fat and weak. It’s a tease, not a session.

There isn’t a single standout session in this whole run. The best bet, if you’re desperate for a paddle, is that Sunday the 13th afternoon, but only if you’re a strong paddler and happy with bumpy, wind-driven waves. Otherwise, it’s a two-week gap of really nothing to write home about. Sometimes the area goes blank like this, and this is one of those times.

Rusty.

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