Dania South Beach Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Well, grab a coffee, 'cause we gotta talk about the next couple of weeks. It’s a bit of a slow grind out there for the forseeable future, to be honest. I’ve been staring at the charts and the models for the next 16 days, and it’s a whole lotta nothin’ for the most part. There isn't a single day in that whole run that gets me properly frothing. It’s one of those stretches where you might be better off tuning up your bike or getting ahead on the honey-dos.

We’re looking at Dania South Beach, and the long-range outlook is pretty flat and pretty sad. For the first week and a half, from Tuesday the 8th right through to the 19th, it's just wall-to-wall poor surf conditions. The swell is tiny, barely a whisper. Tuesday morning the 8th is glassy but with nothing but ankle-biters at 0.7 ft. The wind kicks up onshore, but it doesn't matter 'cause there's no wave to ruin anyway. The combined energy is a paltry 9, which is about as weak as it gets. There's a couple of mornings on the 9th and 10th with a slight bump to 2 ft, but the direction is all over the shop from the NNE, and the period is a weak 8 seconds. It’s just messy, onshore, and tiny.

Honestly, the only thing of any note in that whole first ten days is a slight glimmer on the morning of the 20th. We get a break in the wind, going glassy with a 3 mph southerly. The swell is still unremarkable at 2 ft, but that clean, glassy surface makes it the only “surfable” wave in the whole run, even if the energy is still weak at 67. It would be a longboard-only kinda session, and you’d have to really want it. Dania South Beach is an inconsistent setup anyway, so this kind of blank run isn't totally out of the ordinary, but it’s still a bummer.

After that little tease, it’s straight back to the flatness. From the 21st onward, the swell tries to pick up a little, pushing to 3 ft and then 4 ft by the 22nd, but the period drops to a pathetic 4-5 seconds, which is just pure wind chop and surface noise. All that energy is weak to moderate at best (96 at its peak), but it's coming from a bad direction and won't have any push. It’s just a choppy, blown-out mess with virtually no shape. There’s nothing on the horizon that suggests any real groundswell, so we're stuck with this for the long haul. Keep your expectations low, and maybe give it a few days before checking the charts again. Forecasts can change, and this area can string something together from a rogue storm, but as it stands right now, there is not a single standout day on the books.

Rusty

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