Broadway Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright folks, Rusty here. Let’s have a look at what’s cookin' for Broadway over the next sixteen days.

Well, I gotta be straight with you – it’s a tough stretch. We’re looking at a long, grim run of surf that’s barely worth gettin’ wet for. The first recommendation doesn’t pop up until the 21st of August, and even then, it’s a bit of a heartbreaker. We’re talkin’ a solid fortnight of flat to weak conditions where the combined energy of all swells is mostly in the low double digits (15 to 91), never really getting any juice. The water’s a touch warmer than normal for this time of year at 77°, so that’s something, but it won’t help the waves.

The first real sniff of anything comes on the morning of Friday the 22nd of August. The swell is a tiny 2 feet from the East, with a poor period of 8 seconds, and it’s a cross-shore wind messin’ it up. It’s a beach/jetty setup, so you’re lookin’ at weak, choppy lines. It’s not worth paddling out for. That’s the story for the next week and a half, really. There’s a lot of clean, glassy mornings with no swell to speak of, and when the wind is good, the swell is next to nothing.

Around the 1st of September, we get a bit of a pulse. On the morning of Tuesday the 1st, we see a 3 feet swell from the South, but the period is a dreadful 4 seconds – that’s just wind chop, no push to it. The combined energy is still weak at 46. The wind is offshore from the North, so it’ll look clean, but it’s gonna be a frustrating, bumpy close-out. This is an advanced spot, and that’s about all it’s good for. The morning of Wednesday the 2nd of September is glassy with a 1 feet swell from the SSE, but again, it’s tiny and weak.

The only other time we see a little more height is on the 5th of September. Saturday morning has a 3 feet from the South, and the afternoon bumps to 4 feet from the South. But the period is only 4-5 seconds, the wind is howlin’ cross-onshore or onshore, and the combined energy is only 30-62. It’s going to be a choppy, blown-out mess. For a beach/jetty, that’s more of a kite-surfing scene than a paddle surf.

Honestly, there’s no standout here. No day where the swell, wind, and direction line up. The whole sixteen days is a write-off for quality surfing. The consistent swell just isn’t there, and the few pulses we get are too short-period and wind-affected. Forecasts can change, but right now, leave the board at home.

Rusty.

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