Narrow Neck Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright folks, Rusty here. Let’s have a look at what’s on the cards for Narrow Neck over the next couple of weeks.

Right off the bat, I gotta be straight with you: the next week or so is looking pretty grim. We’ve got a long stretch of poor conditions with only a few fleeting moments of surfable waves. The first real chance to get wet isn't until Monday morning, August 3rd, but even then it’s nothing to write home about.

Monday morning, August 3rd, we’ll see a small 3ft swell from the SE, with a period of 11 seconds. The wind is glassy out of the SE at just 3 mph, which is a positive, but the wave energy is weak at 176. The water temp is sitting at 69°, which is pretty average for this time of year. It’s surfable, but just barely. The afternoon sees the wind turn cross-onshore and the conditions go downhill fast.

That pattern pretty much holds through the rest of the week. A few clean mornings peek through, like Wednesday morning, August 5th, with 3ft from the E and a light offshore WNW wind at 6 mph, but the energy is still only moderate (134) and the swell is short-period. The wind spoils it by the afternoon.

The real stand-out, and the only time I’d get excited, is on Sunday morning, August 9th. We’ve got a 4ft swell from the East, period still short at 8 seconds, but the wind is glassy out of the WSW at 3 mph. The combined energy bumps up to 212, which is moderate. The report says to expect good surf conditions, and with glassy conditions like that, the waves will be clean. This is your best bet for a decent session. The afternoon gets messy with a cross-shore wind, so make it a morning mission.

After that, Monday the 10th has a clean morning with a 3ft E swell and a 9 mph offshore wind from the W, but it’s just a so-so session. The rest of the second week is a write-off. We get a few small windows of clean or glassy conditions, like the morning of Tuesday the 11th (2ft, glassy) and Saturday the 15th (3ft from the SE, offshore wind), but the swell is tiny and the energy is low. The standouts are simply not there.

The last few days of the outlook, from the 16th to the 18th, are dominated by strong cross-onshore winds and choppy seas. The swell energy spikes on the 18th with a 2ft E swell and a period of 11 seconds giving a reading of 228, but with a 12 mph cross-onshore wind, it’s just a messy, choppy mess. This spot is a reef break, so it can handle a bit of swell, but not with this wind.

Honestly, for this stretch, if you’re not out there on Sunday the 9th, you’re probably not missing much. The rest of the time, it’s a waiting game.

Stay tuned, Rusty.

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