Narrow Neck Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, Rusty here. Let’s have a look at what’s cookin’ for Narrow Neck.

To be straight with you, this stretch of the next 16 days is a tough one. The water’s sitting at 68°, which is about 1° cooler than average for this time of year – nothing wild, just a touch on the fresh side. But the real story is the lack of any proper surf. We’ve got a long, drawn-out run of small, messy, onshore slop that’s barely worth paddling out for. The first few days are a write-off.

From Monday the 17th right through the rest of the week and into the weekend, it’s all cross-onshore winds and weak, short-period windswell. Wave heights hover between 3 ft and 5 ft, but the energy is weak (mostly in the 66 to 277 range), and the period is a punchy 7 to 8 seconds. The wind is blowing from the SE and SSE, which puts a chop on everything. Nothing doing here.

There’s a brief flicker of hope on Friday the 21st morning. The wind goes light from the NNW, giving us a clean, cross-off window. The swell is tiny, only 3 ft from the east with a 7-second period, and the energy is low (102). It’s surfable, but just barely – you’ll be on a log or a longboard, scratching for ankle-biters. The rest of that day and the weekend drop back into the same old story.

The following week, from Monday the 24th to Wednesday the 26th, the swell drops further to 2 ft or 3 ft, but the wind is lighter. We get some glassy moments on Wednesday the 26th morning with a light WNW breeze and a 9-second period. The energy is still meek (89), but it’s clean. Thursday the 27th morning is also glassy, with a 2 ft, 8-second swell. If you’re desperate for a paddle, those are your windows, but don’t expect a wave with any push.

The real standout, if you can call it that, is on Tuesday the 25th morning. The wind goes offshore from the WNW, light at 6 mph, and the swell is 2 ft from the ENE at 8 seconds. The energy is only 77, but it’s the cleanest, most ridable conditions we see in the whole run. It’s flat, it’s small, but it’s the best of a bad bunch.

From the end of August into September, the swell tries to pick up again. On Monday the 31st afternoon, the combined energy jumps to 503 with a 7 ft SE swell, but the period is a short 8 seconds and the wind is a fresh SSE cross-onshore at 19 mph. The comment says “poor surf conditions” – it’s lumpy, choppy, and ugly. The same pattern continues into Tuesday the 1st of September, with 7 ft swell and 677 energy, but again it’s cross-onshore and messy. That much energy with that wind is more of a windsurfing or kiting setup than a surf one.

So, bottom line: there’s no real swell to get excited about. The best you’ll get is a few clean, knee-high mornings on the 25th or 27th. If you’ve got a longboard and low expectations, you might find a few fun ones. Otherwise, this stretch is a snoozer.

Rusty.

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