Fenway Beach Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, surfers, Rusty here. Let's be honest from the get-go: this forecast for Fenway Beach is a tough one. We're looking at a long stretch of small, sloppy, and mostly unsurfable conditions. The first real glimmer of anything worth paddling for doesn't show up until Wednesday, September 9th, so we've got a solid week of flatness and onshore chop to get through first.

The water here is sitting around 70°, which is pretty much bang on average for this time of year. No surprises there.

Let's get the bad news out of the way. From Monday the 31st right through the first week of September, the surf is tiny. We're talking 1 foot on the best days, but the wind is almost always cross or onshore, and the combined wave energy is mostly weak, sitting in the low double digits (18, 17, 10) or barely cracking 100 (169, 148). The wind state is described as "poor surf conditions" day after day. Tuesday afternoon the 1st sees a jump in wind to 19 mph from the east, kicking up a lumpy 4 foot mess, but it's short period windswell. Thursday morning the 3rd has a risk of thunderstorms and a tiny 1 foot wave. The only clean spell comes Friday morning the 4th with glassy conditions, but the swell is a pathetic 1 feet. There's a clean cross-offshore breeze on Saturday the 5th, but again, the swell is just 1 feet. You get the picture.

Now, there is one date that stands out, and it's the most promising option in the whole 16-day window. Wednesday, September 9th, the morning shows a pulse of swell. We get a 3 foot wave from the SSW, with a clean cross-offshore breeze from the NNE at 9 mph. The combined energy reading hits 115 – moderate energy – and the conditions are described as "clean" and "surfable waves". It's not a classic, but it's the only real window. That afternoon, the wind shifts, and the quality drops off again pretty quickly.

After that, the following week from September 10th to the 15th is mostly a write-off. We get a few more clean, cross-offshore days on the 11th and 12th from the NW and NNW, but the swell is small and short-period. The 12th has a 5 foot to 5 foot swell from the SSW, but it's still being called "poor surf conditions" and the energy is moderate (161-213). The period is only 6 seconds, so it's just windswell. Nothing to get excited about.

The long and short of it is: if you're desperate for a paddle, set your alarm for the morning of Wednesday, September 9th. That's the only time the stars align even slightly. Otherwise, the boards are staying in the car for the next two weeks.

Rusty

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