92nd Street Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, Rusty here again, but this time in feet, miles, and Fahrenheit for you.

Let’s look at what 92nd Street has on offer. The water temp this time of year is about what you’d expect, nothing unusual.

Right from the start, I gotta tell ya – this whole 16-day stretch is a tough one. There’s a big ol’ gap of nothing to get excited about for the first week. Sunday August 2nd? Don't bother. That’s a 3ft SSE swell with a period of 4 seconds and a 15 mph southerly wind smacking it right onshore. The combined energy is barely a whisper (27). Monday the 3rd tries to bump up to a 4ft swell, but it’s still short period at 7 seconds, and the wind, while shifting, leaves it messy. The energy hits a moderate 172 and 201, but the waves are poor.

From Tuesday the 4th all the way through Sunday the 9th, it’s the same dirge: tiny 2 to 3ft swells from the SSE or S with periods between 6 and 8 seconds. Winds are mostly cross-on or onshore, keeping everything chopped. Combined energy mostly hangs under 200. There’s a little flicker on Saturday the 8th morning – a 2ft S swell with a light westerly breeze that cleaned it up. The report called it ‘surfable but very ordinary’. The score was a 1. That’s the highlight, and that’s saying something.

Then there’s another dead zone from Sunday the 9th afternoon through Saturday the 15th. The swell drops below 2ft, often down to 1ft or even less. Winds are all over the place – cross, cross-off, cross-on – but it’s irrelevant when there's no energy. Combined energy slips down into single or low double digits. A couple of times on the 13th and 14th the period stretches to 8 and 10 seconds, but the swell height is laughable – 0.3ft or 1ft. Not a chance of a wave.

Finally, on Sunday the 16th morning, we get another ‘surfable but ordinary’ moment. A 3ft SSE swell with a 6-second period, clean with a light NNE breeze, and combined energy of 51. It’s small, weak, and at a breakwater beach break. The offshore is from the NNW, so that light cross-off might give a tiny, clean little ripple. Nothing more.

If I had to pick a standout, it’d be that Saturday the 8th morning. It’s the only window with clean wind and a pulse, however small. But it’s still just 2ft.

Look, we’ve got a solid two weeks of mostly flat, poor conditions. This ain’t for paddle surfing. Might be worth forgetting the surfboard and thinking about a kite on the windier afternoons if the swell touches 4ft, but even then it’ll be choppy and weak. It don’t stay this bad forever, but right now, it’s a real bummer.

Rusty.

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