Jennette's Pier Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright folks, Rusty here. Let’s be straight with you right from the jump: if you’re looking to get your feet wet and actually catch a wave worth paddling for over the next sixteen days, you’re looking at a drought. This is one of those tough stretches where the ocean just doesn’t want to cooperate for us.

We’ve got Jennette's Pier as our only option, and honestly, the outlook is bleak. The entire sixteen-day run is plagued by tiny, weak swell. The best we see is a little bump around the 2 ft to 3 ft mark from the SE on the 4th and 5th, but that combined energy is laughably weak—stuck down in the 50s and 60s—and the period is a short, choppy 6 to 7 seconds. That’s windswell, and it’s going to be junky. The wind is all over the shop, mostly cross or cross-off, which keeps it clean at times, but there’s just no power behind it to make anything rideable. We’re looking at “poor surf conditions” nearly every single day.

There’s really just one window that even gets a glimmer of hope, and that’s the morning of Monday the 17th of August. We get a glassy morning at Jennette's Pier with the wind dying to nothing. Swell is still tiny at 2 ft from the SE with an 8-second period, but the energy bumps up a little (36). It’s the cleanest the water will look. Even then, it’s barely a knee-slapper.

The rest of the run is garbage. We have multiple days with swell below 1 ft and energy in the single digits. From the 10th to the 16th of August, it's a total flat spell. The water temperature isn’t anything to write home about either, running pretty average for this time of year around the pier.

If you’re hardcore and just need to sit on a board, the glassy Monday morning on the 17th is your only real shot at something semi-clean, but don’t expect to get wet above the waist. For a more realistic look, this stretch is more interesting for a kite on a windier day than for a paddle surfer. It’s a tough fortnight, but that’s how it goes sometimes around here.

Rusty.

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