Fortunes Rocks Beach Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, Rusty here. Let’s break it down in feet and miles per hour.

Straight up, it’s a tough one for Fortunes Rocks Beach. The whole 16-day window is a long, flat, and pretty hopeless run for decent surf. There’s nothing to get excited about – no real standouts, no solid swell. The first real chance of anything even rideable is a tiny blip on Thursday afternoon, September 3rd, where we see a weak 3ft swell from the SE, but it’s a short-period 5-second windswell with very ordinary conditions. The wind is light offshore from the NNW at about 6 mph, but the combined energy is only 67 (weak), and the waves are described as “surfable but very ordinary.” That’s about as good as it gets.

The water temperature is sitting at 64°, which is about 2° warmer than the long-term average for this time of year – a bit on the warm side for early September, but nothing too wild.

From Friday the 4th onward, it’s a steady decline. Friday morning has a glassy 2ft SE swell, but it’s still poor. The rest of the first week dribbles away with tiny, weak waves, mostly under 3ft, and periods often under 8 seconds. The wind is occasionally good – like Friday morning’s glassy conditions or Monday afternoon’s glassy calm – but there’s just no swell to work with.

The second week doesn’t offer any relief. From September 8th onward, the swell drops to nearly nothing, with heights of 0.7ft to 1ft most days. The combined energy readings are often in the single digits or teens – that’s about as weak as it gets. There’s a brief uptick on September 10th with a 4ft S swell, but it’s a short-period (5-7 seconds) windswell with a fresh cross-onshore wind from the S at 19 mph, making for choppy, lumpy, poor surf. The combined energy climbs to 126 (moderate), but the quality is terrible – you’d be better off on a kite than a paddle board that day.

After that, it’s back to tiny, weak, and often blown out. The last few days of the forecast, from the 16th to the 18th, show some longer-period swell (12-13 seconds) but with heights of only 0.3ft to 1ft – not enough to even stand up on. The combined energy is in the teens or low 40s, and the wind is clean offshore or cross-off, but it’s just a cruel tease.

So, bottom line: there’s no surf worth chasing here in the entire 16-day window. The conditions are either too small, too short-period, or blown out. It’s a rare blank run for this area, but it happens. Forecasts can change, but right now, save your wax and wait for the next pulse.

Rusty.

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