Juno Pier Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright folks, Rusty here. Let’s be straight with you – the outlook for the next couple of weeks is a tough one. I’ve scanned the charts for Juno Pier and, honestly, it’s a whole lot of nothing for a good long while.

We kick off on Tuesday, July 7th, and the first thing you’ll notice is the water temperature sitting at 86°, which is a touch warmer than usual for this time of year. That’s the only highlight though. The surf is flat, with tiny 0.7 ft swell from the east and only 9 units of energy behind it. That’s weak, and the period is short at 8 seconds. Tuesday morning is glassy, so the water looks like a lake, but there’s nothing to ride. The afternoon gets messy with a 12 mph cross-onshore wind from the southeast. Don’t bother.

Wednesday the 8th sees a slight bump to 2 ft, but it’s a windswell with a pitiful 4-second period and a 12 energy reading. The wind is cross-onshore. This is junk. Thursday the 9th is similar – small, weak, and choppy. We go straight through the weekend with the same story: tiny ripples, cross-onshore winds, and energy readings barely cracking 40. By Sunday the 12th, we’re down to 0.7 ft again. This is a real dry spell.

There’s a brief flicker on Monday the 13th. The morning brings a light, clean cross-offshore breeze from the WSW, and the swell ticks up to a cleaner 0.7 ft from the ENE with a 9-second period. It’s still very small, and the energy is only 11, but for a paddle with no chop, you could get a knee-high slide. It’s not really surfable, but it’s the best we’ve seen.

From there, it’s back to the same grind. The middle of the week is flat and weak. Thursday the 16th morning has a glassy, dead-calm surface with a little 1 ft swell and an 8-second period, but again, basically nothing. The only real nod towards anything rideable comes on Friday the 17th. The morning is glassy, and we see our highest swell height so far at 3 ft from the SE, with a 5-second period and 34 energy. It’s a short-period windswell, so it will be a bit crumbly, but with no wind, it will be the cleanest wave of the whole outlook period. If you were to go, that’s the morning to do it, but it’s still a far cry from good.

We fizzle out from there. The entire second week is filled with more of the same: small, onshore, and weak. Strong winds on Monday the 20th and Wednesday the 22nd make it look more like a day for a kite than a surfboard.

To sum it up: you’re looking at a long, long gap of over a week with absolutely nothing worth paddling out for. The one morning that stands out above the rest is the glassy Friday the 17th, where 3 ft of clean, crumbly SE swell will be the best on offer. Keep that in mind, but don’t get your hopes up too high. This is a pretty normal run for the area when the swell windows close.

Rusty.

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