Hargen Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Right now, the surf is pretty much dead out here. We're looking at a run of small, junky waves with onshore winds messing up the surface. It's a flat spell, and I'm talking several days of it. The swell energy is weak, reading values like 204 and 183 on Wednesday, but that's not doing us any favors. The wind is blowing onshore and the waves are just messy.

Wednesday the 9th sees a storm risk with a strong breeze from the WNW at 25 mph. The swell is a weak 4ft, coming from the same direction as the wind, which is never good. It's lumpy and poor. By Thursday the 10th, the swell drops way down. There's a little cross-offshore wind but it's just not enough to make anything of the 2ft of slop. The energy is tiny, down in the single digits and twenties. The clean conditions will be there, but on waves that small, it's just not worth getting wet for. It stays like this through the weekend—small, weak, and mostly onshore winds.

This is the kind of stretch where you find something else to do. There's simply no good surf on offer. There are clean windows here and there, like Thursday morning and some light wind spells, but the swell just isn't there. It's a stubborn pattern of small, short-period windswell that doesn't have the juice to stand up.

Now, looking further out, things get a bit more interesting but still not amazing. Around the 17th, the swell tries to push back up a little, hitting 3ft on Thursday afternoon, but the wind is still cross-onshore, so it's a choppy mess. We get some clean conditions again on the 21st with a cross-offshore wind, but the swell has completely vanished, reading 0.3ft.

The best of the bunch looks like it'll be around the 24th. Thursday the 24th has a moderate offshore wind from the E at 12 mph. The swell is a weak but clean 2ft, coming from the WNW. The energy is up a touch to 30, which is still weak, but the conditions will at least be clean and surfable. It's not going to be big, but it might be the only rideable wave in a long, flat spell.

Honestly, Hargen is a beach and breakwater setup, and with this kind of weak, short-period swell, it's not going to have any shape. It's going to be soft and crumbly at best. The water temp is sitting at 66°, which is a touch warmer than normal for this time of year—nothing crazy, but you can feel it.

The long-range stuff is promising but less certain. It looks like we might finally get a window of clean, rideable surf, but don't hold your breath for anything with any power. It's a waiting game, and with these forecast changes, a little patience might pay off.

This is Rusty, signing off.

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