Jennette's Pier Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, Rusty here. Let’s talk about what’s coming up for Jennette’s Pier.

First off, I’m not gonna kid you – the next week and a half is pretty slim pickings. We’ve got a long stretch of tiny, messy waves from now through most of the month. The water temp is sitting about average for this time of year, so no surprises there, but you’ll be doing more floating than surfing for a while.

From Sunday the 16th through to around mid-week, we’re looking at knee-high dribble. The swell is weak, coming in from the east and southeast with combined energies barely cracking 20 to 70 (weak energy), and the period is short, around 5 to 9 seconds. The winds are mostly cross or cross-onshore, so it’s choppy. Not worth paddling out, honestly.

We get a little glimmer of hope on Thursday morning, the 20th. It’s still tiny – 1ft from the ESE with a short 8-second period – but the wind goes glassy. If you’re desperate for a knee-high glide on a longboard with no bumps, that’s your window. That afternoon, the seabreeze chops it up again.

There’s another flicker on the 22nd and 23rd. Swell bumps up to 3ft to 3ft from the NE, but the period is only 5 to 6 seconds – weak, short-period windswell, combined energy around 68 to 82 (still weak). The morning of the 23rd has clean conditions with a light offshore from the NW. It’s not great, but you could get a few weak closeouts if you’re keen.

Then it goes quiet again until Monday the 24th morning. For a brief moment, we get a 1ft ESE swell with a longer 12-second period, and clean offshore wind from the W. Combined energy is 53 (weak). It’s surfable but ordinary – more of a warm-up than anything exciting.

The first real standout won’t show up until Thursday the 27th. That morning, we see 3ft from the ESE with a 12-second period – that’s proper groundswell energy. Combined energy jumps to 240 (moderate wave energy). The wind is light offshore from the NNW, so it’ll be clean. This is the best looking session of the whole run. It’s a beach/jetty setup, so that long-period swell might make it a little straight, but with offshore wind and a decent push, there’ll be some fun lined-up waves for the intermediate crew.

But don’t sleep on Sunday the 30th afternoon. The swell builds to 7ft from the ENE with an 8-second period – that’s a lot of water moving, combined energy 489 (strong wave energy). And here’s the kicker: the wind goes glassy. That’s rare. This is for experts only – 7ft on a beach break with a shorebreak factor can be heavy. If you’ve got the skills, that afternoon could offer some of the best, cleanest waves in the whole 16-day forecast.

So, to sum it up: the best on offer is Thursday morning the 27th for cleaner, fun-size groundswell, and Sunday the 30th afternoon for the bigger, glassy swell for the experienced crew. The rest is mostly small and messy.

Rusty out.

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