8th Street Jetty Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright folks, Rusty here. Let's talk about 8th Street Jetty.

Honestly, it’s a tough run ahead. We’ve got a solid 16-day window to look at, but the first ten days or so are pretty much a write-off for any real surfing. The surf is tiny, weak, and the conditions are often messy or just downright poor. There’s a long gap from now until the end of the month where you’d be better off doing something else. The combined swell energy barely cracks double digits for most of that time. You’re looking at knee-high slop with a combined energy reading of just (19) to (73). Not worth paddling out for.

The water temp is sitting at 77°, which is a touch warmer than normal for this time of year, but that’s the only highlight for a while.

Things finally start to show a *little* life around Saturday, the 5th of September. The morning gets a 3 ft pulse from the ESE with a nice long period of 11 seconds, and the wind goes clean offshore from the NW. That’s the one to keep an eye on – proper groundswell energy (132) and glassy conditions. That morning is the only real standout in the whole outlook. It’s not big, but it will be clean and lined up. The afternoon holds with 3 ft and light offshore winds too.

Then Sunday morning, the 6th, sees the swell bump up to 4 ft from the SSW, but the period drops to a short, weak 6 seconds. The combined energy is moderate (152), but with that short period, it’s gonna be a bit of a messy close-out wave. It’s surfable, but not a patch on the Saturday morning window.

After that, it all falls apart again into tiny, wind-affected dribble for the rest of the second week. The setup looks so weak and wind-affected that it’s more interesting for kite surfing than paddle surfing on those later days.

So, my call: if you’ve got a board, save your energy for Saturday morning, the 5th of September, at 8th Street Jetty. That’s your best shot, and the only one worth getting excited about.

Stay wet, Rusty.

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