Indian River (Northside) Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, this is Rusty, and I’m gonna be straight with you. For the next 16 days, the Indian River (Northside) is a tough beat. It’s a beginner-friendly beach/jetty spot, but the swell and wind just aren’t lining up to give us anything worthwhile. Honestly, the forecast is a long stretch of pretty ordinary conditions, so we’re looking at a big gap with no real standout surf.

We start off on Friday, July 10th, with a tiny 1ft wind swell from the ENE and a weak combined energy of just 36. The water is sitting at 77°, which is a notable 4° warmer than normal for this time of year. Friday morning is clean but the swell is too small, and while Friday afternoon goes glassy, that 2ft swell from the south is just not enough to do anything with.

Saturday the 11th and Sunday the 12th are a write-off with messy, choppy conditions and onshore wind. The swell is small and weak, ranging from 1ft to 3ft, with energy barely cracking 47. There’s nothing to get excited about.

We get a tiny glimmer on Tuesday morning, July 14th. The wind shifts offshore from the WSW, and we get a clean 2ft wave from the east with a bit more period at 8 seconds. The combined energy is still weak at 43, but it’s the first time we see a “surfable” comment. The afternoon is also cross-offshore and clean. It’s not good, but it’s the best we’ve seen. That’s the only real window in the first week, and it’s still very small.

Then we hit another dry spell. Wednesday the 15th is clean but tiny, with a 0.7ft wave. The rest of the week through to the 19th is just small, weak, and mostly messy. Combined energy values are mostly in the teens and twenties, which is just nothing.

The second week, starting around Monday July 20th, we see a slight uptick in swell size, but the wind gets nasty. On Tuesday July 21st, the swell hits 4ft from the SSE with a combined energy of 214, but it’s a fresh cross-onshore wind making it lumpy. The period is only 8 seconds, so it’s a weak, short-period wind swell. This pattern of small, onshore, and choppy conditions continues through the rest of the forecast period. We see a 4ft swell on Wednesday the 22nd and a 4ft swell on Thursday the 23rd, but the wind is still cross-onshore from the NE, making it messy. The best we can say is that the swell is bigger, but the quality is poor.

Given the persistent onshore and cross-onshore winds and the small, weak swell, this setup at a beach and jetty looks way more interesting for kite surfing than paddle surfing. There’s just no good surf on offer here. Hang in there, it tends not to stay this poor for long, but this forecast is a blank run, plain and simple.

Rusty.

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