New Brighton Beach Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, let’s get into it. The next 16 days here at New Brighton Beach are looking pretty quiet overall, with a few brief windows of interest, but nothing that’s gonna get the heart rate up too high. You’ll need to be patient and pick your moments.

The water temperature is sitting at 50°F, which is about normal for this time of year—nothing unusual there.

The pattern starts off with a real lack of energy. Saturday afternoon the 1st and Sunday morning the 2nd offer up the best of the early period, and I’m not gonna lie, it’s pretty ordinary. Sunday morning the 2nd has a small 3ft swell from the SE with a 13-second period, clean offshore wind from the W, and light breeze. The combined swell energy is 210 (moderate). It’s surfable, but very ordinary.

After that, Monday the 3rd through to Tuesday the 12th, there’s a long stretch of poor to marginal conditions. Lots of onshore or cross-onshore winds, tiny swell, and some days with barely any energy at all. You’ll have a few clean mornings, but the swell is too small to get excited about. The combined energy often drops into the two-digit range, like 39, 22, or even 3 on Tuesday morning the 4th. There’s a bit of a bump Tuesday afternoon the 4th with 4ft from the SSE, but the wind is cross-off from the SW at 19 mph, and even though the energy is 495 (moderate), the wave quality is poor.

Things start to look a bit more promising around Thursday the 13th. Thursday morning brings a 5ft swell from the ENE with a 13-second period, offshore wind from the WSW at 9 mph, and the combined energy jumps to 868 (moderate to strong). The guidance says this is a very good surf outlook. Thursday afternoon, however, the swell jumps to 10ft with the same period and direction, and the combined energy goes through the roof at 3368 (very strong). That’s too big for this break—experts only, and even then, it might be pushing the limits.

Friday the 14th and Saturday the 15th mornings are the real standouts of the whole run. Friday morning the 14th has 5ft from the ENE with 12-second period, clean offshore WSW wind at 9 mph, and combined energy of 582 (moderate to strong). The conditions are clean and good. Saturday morning the 15th is glassy, with 4ft from the E, 11-second period, and combined energy of 279 (moderate). The wind is glassy from the NNE. Both are great windows for a paddle.

After that, Sunday the 16th drops back to smaller, cleaner but ordinary surf—3ft from the E with a 10-second period, glassy or cross-on conditions.

So, the best surf on offer is the morning of the 13th and the morning of the 14th, with the morning of the 15th also looking clean. The Thursday afternoon the 13th is too big for most. For the rest of the forecast, it’s mostly small and average, with a few clean windows but not much push.

Rusty

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