D Street Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, folks, Rusty here. Let’s be straight with you. Looking at the next stretch, it’s not gonna be one for the highlight reel. We've got a long stretch of small, jumbled surf ahead. The start of the period is weak, and it stays that way for a while. The first week is mostly a write-off, with a bunch of days where you’d be fighting a cross-onshore breeze for thigh-high slop. Then there’s a gap of several days where there’s just nothing worth paddling out for. It’s not until well into the second week that things start to look a little more promising, but it's a long-range call so don’t book the time off just yet.

The only spot in the forecast is D Street, a sandbar break that’s fairly consistent but exposed to that SW swell. The water is running at 73° with an anomaly of 5°, which is much warmer than normal for this time of year. That’s a nice touch, but it doesn't help the waves.

To kick things off, Monday the 7th has some 6ft of SSW swell rolling in, but it’s a 13-second pulse and the wind is a messy cross-on from the NW at 6 mph. The combined energy is moderate (1182), but it’s all over the place, and the forecast calls it marginal at best. Monday afternoon just gets worse with the wind picking up. Forget it.

Tuesday the 8th and Wednesday the 9th drop right off. We're looking at 4ft and 2ft of weak, short-period swell. The wind is light but still cross-onshore. It’s poor surf conditions, no two ways about it.

The weekend of the 12th and 13th stays pretty grim. The swell holds around the 2ft mark, and it’s mostly poor quality. Saturday has a gentle cross-onshore making it choppy, and Sunday is a bit cleaner with a cross-shore but still tiny. This is not the time to be blowing the dust off your board.

We’ve got a proper lull from around the 14th through the 17th. The swell drops to less than 3ft, and even though the period gets longer (up to 18 seconds), there’s just no energy behind it. It’s a classic flat spell for this area.

Now, for the one and only standout in this whole 16-day window... and I use the term "standout" with a heavy heart. It’s Saturday the 19th of September. That afternoon, we finally see the stars align for a brief moment. The swell is only 3ft, but it’s coming from the SW with an 18-second period. The wind is forecast to drop out completely, going glassy. The wave comment is "expect very good surf conditions," and I’m inclined to believe it. It won’t be big, but it could be clean as a whistle, with a bit more push than we’ve seen all week. The energy is moderate (667), but the clean conditions will make all the difference. That’s your one chance for something genuinely worth the paddle.

After that, it’s back to the same marginal, small, cross-onshore stuff. The energy picks up a touch around Monday the 21st, with 4ft of 18-second SW swell, but the conditions are still just "marginal." It’s a long way out, so we’ll have to see, but as it stands, that’s the best we get.

So, to sum it up: the next few days are a beach walk, the middle of the period is a write-off, and the one date to circle is Saturday the 19th of September. It might be small, but if the wind does what it says, it could be the cleanest surf we’ve seen in a fortnight. Don't hold your breath on the rest.

Rusty, out.

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