Broadway Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, Rusty here again. Let’s run through this in feet and miles per hour.

Honestly, the next 16 days at Broadway are lookin’ bleak. We’ve got a long stretch of flat, messy junk that’s not worth paddlin’ out for. The first real suggestion doesn’t come until the end of the second week, but even then, it’s not great. You’re lookin’ at a solid week of poor conditions before anything even twitches.

The only break in the game is Broadway. It’s a beach and jetty setup, pretty exposed, and it likes swell from the SE. The water is sitting at a very weird 77°, which is a massive 6° warmer than normal for mid-September. That’s unusual, and you’ll feel it if you’re stubborn enough to paddle out.

From Friday 11th through Monday 21st, it’s all garbage. Tiny slop, short-period windswell, and cross-shore to onshore winds. Swell heights stay under 3 ft for most of it, and the energy is in the weak teen-to-sixty range – barely enough to wobble a longboard. The only glimmer is Sunday 13th afternoon, when it goes glassy with a light SSW wind at 3 mph, but the swell is still just 2 ft at 5 seconds. Flat, clean, but unsurfable.

Things finally change on Monday 22nd. Swell bumps to 3 ft from the east, with an 8-second period, and energy hits a moderate 137. But the wind is screaming from the NE at 37 mph – that’s near-gale force. The surf is clean, but those winds will be absolutely howling. For a beach and jetty break, that setup looks way more interesting for kite surfing than paddle surfing. This pattern holds through Tuesday 23rd with 3 ft swell and 129 energy, but still those monster winds. Wednesday 24th sees 2 ft from the ESE, energy at 84, winds finally dropping to a stiff 22 mph.

If I had to pick the best of a bad bunch, it’d be the mornings of Monday 23 September when the swell is 3 ft from the ESE at 10 seconds, delivering 159 combined energy (moderate). The wind is cross-off at 31 mph, so it’s clean, but that’s a strong breeze. The swell direction matches the preferred SE, and the longer 10-second period will give slightly better shape, but honestly, for advanced surfers only at that size with that wind. For the rest of us, it’s a stay-on-the-beach day.

After that, it fizzles out again into the end of the month with tiny waves and choppy conditions. No standout session here, folks. Keep the board in the car and wait for a better call.

Rusty.

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