Newdicks Beach Surf Forecast and Surf Report

G'day, I'm Rusty. Let's talk about what's on the cards for Newdicks Beach for the next couple of weeks.

Right off the bat, I gotta be honest—it's a grim stretch. For the first week and a half, the waves are tiny, real tiny, and only gonna interest someone on a soft top. Most of the forecast is a flat spell with barely a bump in the water.

Starting Sunday the 13th: we've got 1 ft from the northeast with a 13-second period. That's a long period for a wave that small, and the combined wave energy is only 52 (weak energy), so there's just no power in it. Wind is cross-off from the WSW at 12 mph, keeping the surface nice and clean. Still, it's poor surf. Same story in the afternoon—lighter winds but still tiny.

Monday the 14th: swell drops to 1.0 ft in the morning with glassy conditions—wind from the WSW at just 3 mph. It's a glassy mirror, but energy is only 28. Afternoon has a bit of cross-shore breeze and some ripples on the surface, swell down to 0.7 ft.

Tuesday the 15th: dead calm in the morning. 0.7 ft, absolutely glassy with zero wind. Pretty to look at, not much to surf (energy 15). Afternoon brings a 9 mph onshore wind from the north, so forget it.

Wednesday the 16th: stays small (0.7 ft, NNE swell) with cross-off winds in the morning keeping it clean, but energy is just 20. The afternoon gets choppy with a moderate cross-shore.

Thursday the 17th: a write-off—onshore winds and tiny waves. Friday the 18th is the first real bump in size, but it's ugly. Swell jumps to 5 ft with a very short period of 7 seconds—that's windswell, messy stuff. Combined energy hits 199 (moderate), but with strong cross-onshore winds from the NNW at 12 mph, the ocean is chopped up and poor. Might be more interesting for kite surfing if you're into that.

Saturday the 19th is the best of a bad lot. The morning has 4 ft (8-second period, energy 173) with a clean cross-off wind from the WSW at 12 mph. The afternoon gets a marginal call: 4 ft, 9-second period, and energy pushing 310 (moderate wave energy). Clean again with cross-off winds. That's the highlight of the whole forecast. Still only a 1 out of 10 for quality.

From Sunday the 20th it's back downhill. 3 ft Sunday morning with light cross-shore winds, then a cross-onshore in the afternoon. Monday the 21st is tiny again—2 ft with glassy morning conditions but nothing to write home about.

The rest of the week and into the next—22nd through 28th September—we're talking about waves from 2 ft down to 0.3 ft, and eventually flat. Energy drops into single digits. Winds are often offshore, glassy, or cross-off, so the surface is clean lots of the time, but there's just no swell.

For a standout, there isn't one. The best is Saturday afternoon the 19th with 4 ft and clean cross-off winds at Newdicks Beach, but it's only marginal. Everything else is a flat spell. For a break that's "inconsistent" by nature, this is a tough run. Stay hopeful—forecasts can change.

Rusty.

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