92nd Street Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Right, grab a coffee and listen up. Rusty here with the long-range look for 92nd Street. It’s a breakwater setup, so it’s a bit of a sheltered, beginner-friendly zone, but the swell window is pretty specific.

Right now, the water temp is sitting at 73°, which is about average for this time of year—nothing unusual there.

The next couple of weeks are a bit of a mixed bag. The first few days are small and ordinary. We get a pulse of waist-to-chest high swell (3 ft) from the SE with a short 6-second period on Wednesday the 29th of July. The morning is the best bet with a moderate offshore NW breeze, making it clean, but the wave energy is weak (84). It’s surfable, but nothing to write home about. Thursday the 30th drops off even more to 2 ft, still clean with an offshore wind, but the energy is even lower (74). Friday the 31st morning is tiny at 1 ft, but light NW winds keep it clean. The whole first week is basically small, clean, and weak—okay for a beginner to get wet, but not for much else. The weekend (August 1st & 2nd) is a write-off with onshore winds and poor conditions.

We then hit a dry gap from the afternoon of Monday the 3rd all the way through to Saturday the 9th of August. There are a few moments in there where it’s clean but tiny or cross-onshore and messy. Nothing worth paddling out for. It’s a long, flat spell.

Then, things get interesting. The real standout is Sunday, August 9th. We’ve got a proper groundswell arriving from the SSE. The morning is clean with a moderate offshore NW breeze, and the swell is a solid 3 ft, but the energy is building. The afternoon is where it’s at—the swell jumps to 5 ft from the SSE with a very long 12-second period, and the energy surges to a strong 630. It’s still offshore and clean. This is the best on offer by a long shot. The only thing to watch is that long period groundswell can make beach breaks a bit straight and fickle, but at a breakwater spot like this, it should set up nicely. For a more experienced surfer, this is your window.

Monday morning, August 10th is also a gem. The swell drops a touch to 4 ft but it’s glassy—absolutely dead calm with that same long 12-second period from the SSE. The energy is still very high (465). If you can get out before the wind swings onshore in the afternoon, you’ll be laughing.

After that, Tuesday the 11th holds a clean, glassy morning with a 4 ft swell from the SE, but the pattern starts to fade again. The second week fizzles out with onshore winds and choppy conditions. So, mark your calendar for that Sunday the 9th and Monday the 10th—that’s the pulse.

Rusty.

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