Jetty Park Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright folks, Rusty here. Let’s have a look at what’s coming up for our local stretch.

To be straight with you, the next 16 days are looking pretty grim for any kind of decent surf. We’ve got a long stretch of nothing really worth paddling out for. The forecast shows a solid run of poor surf conditions right through from now until the end of the month, with only a flicker of hope on Monday the 27th, and even then it’s a humble little wave.

The first real sniff of anything surfable comes on the morning of Monday, 27th July. That’s over a week away, so we’ve got a big gap of flat, choppy, or onshore junk to get through before that. Sunday the 19th through to the end of the following week is all tiny, messy, and cross-shore to cross-onshore wind. The swell is a paltry `1 ft` to `2 ft` from the SE or ESE, with short periods of just 4 to 8 seconds. The combined energy is weak, often sitting between 15 and 71. There’s one morning, Thursday the 23rd, where the wind goes glassy, but the swell is only `1 ft` – so it’s flat and pretty, but still flat.

Now, the standout, if you can call it that, is the afternoon of Monday, 27th July. The wind will be light and offshore from the W at `6 mph`, which is a big positive. The swell is a meagre `2 ft` from the ENE, but it does have a slightly longer period of 8 seconds. The combined energy jumps to 106 (moderate), and the comment says "surfable waves but very ordinary conditions". Look, it’s not the swell of the summer, but it might just be a knee-high dribbler that’s clean and rideable. If you’re desperate for a paddle, that’s your window.

The break to watch for that small window is Jetty Park. It’s a beach/jetty setup, and it’s marked as inconsistent, so don’t get your hopes up too high. The swell is coming from the ENE, which is a bit off its optimum SSE direction, but with clean offshore wind, the jetty wall might just line up a little wall. The water temperature is sitting at `84°`, which is about normal for this time of year with a negligible anomaly of `-0.2°F`. The crowds at Jetty Park can be often, so if that tiny window fires, you might have company.

Beyond that, the rest of the outlook into early August is all wind and storm risk, with swell dropping to `0.7 ft` and energy falling to single digits. It’s a blank run, and for this area, that’s just how it goes sometimes. The forecasts can change, but for now, save your energy.

Rusty.

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