47th Street Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright folks, it’s Rusty here. Let’s have a look at what’s cookin’ for 47th Street over the next couple of weeks. Gotta be straight with ya – it’s a pretty grim outlook. We’re gonna see a whole lot of nothing for a long stretch before anything even sniffs like a wave.

We’re looking at a solid gap with no real surf on offer from today, September 10th, right through until late on September 23rd. That’s nearly two weeks of mostly flat, weak, or just plain messy conditions. The water temp is sitting at a very unusual 77.5°, which is a whopping 6.3° warmer than average for this time of year – feels more like a bath than the ocean.

For the first week plus, the swell is almost non-existent, with tiny heights between 0.7ft and 3.9ft and combined energy figures barely cracking three digits – mostly weak stuff (10 to 89). The winds are all over the shop, either blowing onshore, cross-onshore, or just not in our favour. There are a couple of glassy windows, like Friday afternoon the 11th and Sunday morning the 13th, but the swell is so puny (1.3ft to 2.3ft) it’s just not worth paddling out for. It’s a write-off.

Now, we finally get a bit of juice around Tuesday the 15th with some 3.9ft ESE swell, but the wind is straight cross-onshore, turning it into a choppy mess. The same story repeats through the middle of the month – size picks up a touch, but the wind ruins it.

The only real standout, and I mean the *only* one, is the very end of the outlook. On Wednesday the 23rd of September we see a brief window. The morning has clean conditions with a cross-offshore wind from the NNW, and the swell is a clean 2.3ft from the SE with a period of 9 seconds. The combined energy is still low at 86, but the wind is right. The afternoon cleans up even more with a lighter NW cross-off breeze and the same clean 2.3ft swell. For the first time in the whole 16 days, we get a rating that’s not a zero – it’s a bare “surfable waves but very ordinary conditions.” It’s not going to blow your mind, but after two weeks of nothing, it’s the only game in town. The swell direction from the SE is a fair match for the NE optimum, so it’ll be a bit weak but workable.

Honestly, this is one of those blank runs. For a beach/jetty spot like this, it tends not to stay this poor for too long, but right now the forecast is what it is. The 21st and 22nd see a bump in swell energy (up to 445), but that’s paired with fresh to strong onshore winds making it look more like a kite-surfing setup than a paddler’s dream.

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