D Street Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright folks, it’s your local surf reporter Rusty here, and I’ve gotta be straight with you on this one. For the next couple of weeks, it’s a lean stretch here at D Street. This is a sandbar break with an exposed southwest swell window, and right now, there’s just nothing to get excited about. We’re looking at a real dry spell, so let’s get into it.

The forecast starts on Friday, July 10th, and honestly, it’s a tough opening. We’ve got some chest-high swell around 3 ft coming from the SSW with a long 15-second period, but the wind is a cross-onshore breeze from the SSW at 9 mph, making it choppy. The combined swell energy is moderate at 498, but the conditions are poor. This pattern sticks around through the weekend and into the start of the next week: the swell drops a little, the wind stays messy or shifts onshore, and you’re looking at weak, poor surf. By Sunday the 12th, the swell is down to 3 ft to 3 ft, and it’s just not worth paddling out. The water temp is sitting around average for this time of year, nothing to write home about.

The whole first week from July 10th through July 17th is a bust. The wind is almost always cross-onshore or onshore, and the wave heights are struggling to hit even 3 ft. The combined energy figures hover in the 200–500 range, which is weak to moderate, but with the bad wind, it’s just choppy junk. There’s no standout, no hidden gem here. For the hardy locals, it might be a lake out there.

Now, we start to see a tiny flicker of hope around July 18th and 19th. On Saturday the 18th, the swell bumps up to 3 ft from the SW with a 18-second period, and the combined energy jumps to 672–694 (moderate) – we even get a couple of marginal scores. The wind is lighter, onshore from the WSW at 6 mph, but it’s light enough that it might clean up a bit. Sunday the 19th sees a similar setup, with a 4 ft swell from the S and a 12-second period, but again, the wind is onshore. This could be a slight improvement, but it’s still just marginal at best. Don’t get your hopes up too high.

We then hit another gap of poor conditions from July 20th through the 23rd, with small swell and mostly onshore winds. The combined energy drops back down, and there’s nothing rideable. Then, on July 24th and 25th, we see a weird shift: the swell direction goes west, and the period drops to a short 8 seconds – that’s windswell territory. On Saturday the 25th, it’s 4 ft from the west with that short period, and the wind is cross-onshore from the SW at 9 mph. The combined energy is 412, but it’s a messy, short-period windswell that will be sloppy at a beach break like this. It’s poor surf, not worth your time.

Honestly, if you’re a paddle surfer, this 16-day window is a washout. The setup with onshore winds and short-period swell might actually be more interesting for a kite surfer than a surfer on a log or a shortboard. There’s nothing consistent here, and this kind of blank run is pretty normal for the area when the trade winds are up. Hang onto your boards, folks – forecasts can change, but right now, it’s a waiting game.

Rusty

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