Lake Worth Pier Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright folks, Rusty here. Let’s get straight into it.

Well, I gotta be honest with you – this 16-day window for Lake Worth Pier is a tough one. There’s no good surf to speak of right now or for a long stretch ahead. The first recommendation doesn’t even come up because every single session is flagged as poor. We’re looking at a massive gap of flat to ankle-slapping dribble from Saturday the 25th of July all the way through to at least the 9th of August. That’s over two weeks of not much to get excited about.

The water temp is sitting at 86°F with an anomaly of 1°F, so it’s pretty much just normal for this time of year – warm bathwater, but nothing weird about it.

The first few days are hopeless. Saturday afternoon the 25th has a tiny 1ft NE swell, a period of just 8 seconds, and a cross-onshore wind from the SE at 9 mph. The wave energy is weak as dishwater at just 23 and it’s choppy. Sunday the 26th morning cleans up with a light offshore wind from the WSW at 6 mph, but the swell has dropped to 1ft. The afternoon turns cross-onshore again. Monday the 27th is even smaller at 0.7ft. This pattern just keeps going day after day – tiny waves, weak energy values mostly below 20, and the occasional clean morning that barely registers a ripple.

Toward the end of July, we get a few cleaner mornings with cross-offshore winds, but the swell never gets above 0.7ft. Even the longer period swell on the 31st of July with a 10-second period only gives 5 units of combined energy. That’s practically nothing. The first few days of August offer a slight bump in swell size to 2ft to 3ft, but the period drops to a pitiful 4 seconds. That’s pure wind chop coming from the SE and SSE. With onshore winds from the 3rd of August onward, the setup is so poor it’s more interesting for kite surfing than paddle surfing.

Honestly, there’s nothing to recommend here. Lake Worth Pier is a beach/pier setup that’s fairly exposed to the swell, but with the optimum swell from the NE not showing up in any meaningful way, and the few small pulses coming from the wrong directions or with terrible period, it’s just not gonna happen. The best you can hope for is a clean morning on the 29th of July or the 30th of July with 0.7ft dribblers. That’s not surf, that’s a paddle board session at best.

There’s a tiny bit of longer period energy showing up on the 7th and 8th of August – 0.3ft to 1ft swells from the ENE and NE with periods around 11 to 12 seconds. That’s groundswell, but it’s so small it won’t break properly on a beach setup anyway. That’s how it goes sometimes around here – a blank run like this isn’t unusual for the area.

Hang in there. Forecasts can change and it never stays flat forever.

Rusty.

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