Friendly Beaches Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, let’s have a look at what’s coming our way for Friendly Beaches. It’s a bit of a slow start, with nothing really worth paddling out for on the first few days. We’ve got some small, weak energy around Thursday and Friday morning, but nothing that’ll get the heart pumping. The first real glimmer of decent surf shows up on Sunday morning the 9th, but it’s short-period windswell and the wind’s all wrong – cross-shore and messy. That afternoon, a bump to 6 ft from the NNE comes with a stiff 12 mph cross-breeze and ugly chop, so not the one.

Monday the 10th morning is where things get interesting. We’ve got a solid 8 ft NE swell pushing in, with a clean 10-second period and cross-offshore wind from the WSW at 12 mph. The wave energy is strong, sitting at 1325, and conditions are clean. That’s expert-level size – big, powerful, and not for the faint-hearted. The afternoon stays clean but drops to 7 ft. Stick to the morning for the pick of it.

Tuesday the 11th settles back a bit, with 4 ft ENE swell and light cross-off breezes, still clean. Nice, manageable size. Wednesday the 12th keeps the clean theme going but with a shorter-period N swell around 5 ft. Not as good shape, but still surfable.

Then we get a little surprise on Thursday the 13th afternoon: a solid 8 ft S swell with strong offshore wind from the WSW at 12 mph, clean conditions and wave energy at 819. That’s the second standout of the run – powerful and clean, but again for experienced surfers only.

After that, the surf tapers off into small, weak, and mostly unrideable stuff through the second week. A few glassy mornings but with hardly any height. The long-period S swells around 15-19 seconds in the second week are too small to do much with, and the beach break setup will see those long lines race through without offering much of a ride.

Water temperature is about 57°, which is a touch warmer than normal for this time of year, so the rubber won’t need to be quite as thick.

In short, the only real standouts are Monday morning the 10th and Thursday afternoon the 13th. Everything else is either too small, too wind-affected, or just average. Don’t expect much from the back half of the window.

Rusty.

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