Juno Pier Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, let’s get real about the next couple of weeks. It’s a flat spell, plain and simple. Don’t get your hopes up for any hero waves. We’ve got a long stretch of small, weak surf ahead, so you might want to dust off the longboard or find another hobby for a while. The only saving grace is that water’s sitting at a warm 86°F, with an anomaly of just 0.5°F, so it’s right where it should be for this time of year.

Right out of the gate, Sunday the 9th is a write-off. We’ve got ankle-biters at 2ft from the ESE with a short, crumbly 4-second period. The cross-onshore wind is only 12 mph, but it’s enough to chop things up. The energy reading is a weak 36, and the call is "poor surf conditions." It’s not even worth paddling out for.

Monday the 10th and Tuesday the 11th don’t get any better. Swell drops to 2ft and then 0.7ft, with periods stuck in the 5 to 9 second range. The wind stays onshore or cross-onshore, and the energy is barely registering, down in the teens. It’s flat, it’s messy, and there’s just nothing to work with.

Then we hit a real dead zone from Wednesday the 12th through Friday the 14th. The swell collapses to 0.3ft and the energy numbers are in the single digits. It’s a total lake out there. There’s a glassy moment on Wednesday morning, but with 0.3ft of swell, what’s the point? You’d be surfing ripples.

The weekend of the 15th and 16th isn't a rescue mission. Saturday the 15th has a tiny bump at 3ft, but it’s short-period and junky. The energy climbs to 50, but it’s all windswell. Sunday the 16th is back down to 2ft. The rip current might be more exciting than the waves.

Now, things get slightly interesting around Monday the 17th and Tuesday the 18th. The swell picks up a bit to 2ft, and the energy jumps to the mid-50s. The direction shifts to the NE, which is better. On Tuesday morning, there’s a glassy window with light ESE winds, so it could be clean, but the period is only 6 seconds. It’s not going to have any punch. It’s small, but might be the most ridable we’ve seen in a while.

After that, it's more of the same low-energy dribble. From the 19th to the 24th, we’re stuck with 0.7ft to 2ft of swell, with periods mostly under 10 seconds. There are a couple of clean-ish mornings, like Friday the 21st with a light offshore W wind, but the swell is just too weak to do anything with.

This is a four- to five-day stretch of no-surf to barely-surf. The first real, maybe-worth-it window is on Tuesday the 18th of August, but even that is marginal. It’s a long way out, so don’t book the day off yet. Keep your eyes on the forecast, but honestly, it’s looking like a blank run.

Rusty.

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