Cox Bay Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, this is Rusty checking in with the outlook for Cox Bay.

We've got a bit of a mixed bag over the next couple of weeks, but there are some definite windows of opportunity. The pattern starts off with small, clean waves and builds towards a couple of stronger pulses later on.

The first few days are all about small but clean conditions. Sunday morning, September 13th is looking nice with a clean 3ft swell from the SW and a light cross-offshore breeze. The water temp is sitting at 58°, which is pretty much spot on for this time of year, so nothing unusual there.

Monday, September 14th is an absolute standout. The morning is glassy with a 2ft SSW groundswell (13-second period) and the afternoon goes totally calm and glassy with a 2ft swell. The combined wave energy is moderate (266 and 215), making for some really fun, user-friendly waves. This is the pick of the first week – small but perfect.

The surf drops right off after that, with a couple of days of weak, short-period windswell and poor conditions. There's a significant gap of poor to marginal surf from Tuesday afternoon through to Wednesday.

We get back into it with another glassy morning on Thursday, September 17th, with a tiny 2ft, long-period (19-second) SW groundswell. This is a proper groundswell, so the sets will have some shape and energy to them, even at that size. Combined energy is moderate (341).

Things pick up more seriously going into the second week. Saturday, September 20th looks magic – a glassy morning and a glassy afternoon with a clean 2ft SW swell. The combined energy is solidly moderate (397 and 410). The standout in this second week is Wednesday, September 23rd. The morning shows a 4ft W swell with an offshore breeze and heavy rain – that's the recipe for some clean, punchy waves. The afternoon cleans up to glassy with a 3ft SW swell. This is when the energy steps up (624 and 581) and the quality is very good.

Another very promising call is for Sunday, September 27th. A moderate offshore breeze (ESE at 12 mph) is forecast to groom a 4ft WNW swell, with combined energy jumping up to 557. This looks like the best combination of size and clean conditions of the whole outlook.

Overall, don't expect much in the middle of the first week, but the bookends of the period – the early glassy days and the stronger, cleaner pulses late in the second week – are where it's at.

Rusty.

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