No Pass Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Right. Rusty here. Let me tell you how it’s looking. Honestly, the first two weeks of this forecast are a bit of a write-off for any decent surf at No Pass. The wind is just relentless, blowing cross-on from the NW or WNW almost the entire time, and the conditions are mostly described as poor or marginal. The combined wave energy is moderate, often in the three-digit range, but it’s all messy and choppy, so not worth paddling out for. There’s a long gap of nothing worthwhile from the morning of the 7th all the way through to the afternoon of the 17th.

Now, things change on the afternoon of Friday the 17th. We get a glassy spell with a 6.9ft NW swell, and that’s the first real glimmer of hope. The combined energy shoots up to 1170 (moderate wave energy), and with that glassy wind, it’ll look clean. But the period is a short 8 seconds, so it won’t have much grunt. This is still just for experienced surfers because of the size.

The real standout is the morning of Saturday the 18th. This is the best on offer. The swell builds to 8.2ft from the NW, and it’s glassy again with a combined energy of 2299 (strong wave energy). That is a pumping, powerful wave, but make no mistake – at over 8ft, this is strictly for experts. The period is 9 seconds, so it’s a bit peaky, but the conditions will be clean as a whistle. The water temperature here is 53.8°F with a -1.4°F anomaly, so that’s about average for this time of year at No Pass. It’s a reef break that’s fairly consistent and exposed to the WNW, which matches the swell direction pretty well. Crowds are possible sometimes.

There are a few other tidy sessions later, like the afternoon of the 21st and the mornings of the 22nd, with 6.9-7.2ft NW swells and glassy winds, but that Saturday morning is the one. After that, things settle back to more moderate swell. Don’t get too excited about the long-range stuff, but the trend is good.

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