Coney Beach Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Hey everyone, Rusty here. Let’s break down Coney Beach over the next sixteen days.

It’s a rough start. A big storm pushes through late August, ruining the surf with strong, messy winds. The ocean is a balmy 68°, which is nearly seven degrees warmer than usual for this time of year—feels like a heated pool, but that’s the only good thing. Most of the forecast is poor quality with nasty wind.

Starting Thursday the 27th, there’s nothing. A tiny 0.7 ft swell and cross-shore wind mean it’s flat and crummy. Friday the 28th picks up to 4 ft of weak, jumbled swell from the SW, but it’s cross-onshore and choppy. By Friday afternoon, the swell hits 6 ft (268 combined energy), but a 25 mph cross-onshore wind makes it a total washout.

Saturday the 29th stays grim – 4 ft with a 22 mph cross-onshore wind, though the energy creeps up to 114. Saturday afternoon the wind jumps to 34 mph with 8 ft of swell (836 energy), but that’s near gale force and messy. That’s kite-surfing weather, not for a board. Sunday the 30th is back to 4 ft but still choppy.

Then, Monday the 31st offers a light. The wind goes cross-offshore from the WNW at 16 mph, and the waves are a clean 6 ft (506 energy) in the morning, settling to 5 ft (415 energy) in the afternoon. It’s the cleanest window we get, but it’s still only marginal. This is the best of a bad lot.

Tuesday September 1st and Wednesday 2nd are poor again, with Wednesday morning going glassy but only 2 ft of weak, short-period swell (31 energy). Thursday September 3rd gives another chance: 6 ft (244 energy) in the morning and 6 ft (541 energy) in the afternoon, both with clean cross-off winds. That’s the second decent window, but nothing special. The second week is a flat run of weak, short-period SW swell or messy onshore winds. Early Saturday the 5th gives a perfectly glassy start, but only 3 ft of 7-second swell (136 energy), and it’s “very ordinary.” Then it’s a long stretch of small, clean days that are barely surfable.

For Coney Beach, the first week is a long stretch of blown-out, poor surf until that brief clean-up on the 31st and the 3rd. The second week is a flat, weak pattern. There’s no consistency here—just a quiet, frustrating spell for the area.

Rusty.

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