Noorderstrand Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, let me level with you about Noorderstrand. It's gonna be a long, dry stretch. The water is sitting at 69°, which is much warmer than usual for this time of year – a real oddity, but that's the only bright spot. This whole 16-day window is a grind, with almost nothing worth paddling out for.

Starting on September 3rd, Thursday, it's a complete mess. Cross-onshore wind, lumpy conditions, and 1.6m swell at a short, weak 6 seconds. The combined energy is only 197 (weak to moderate), but the wind is just destroying it. That continues into Friday the 4th, where the swell hits 2.3m but with a full 28 mph cross-onshore blowout – combined energy is 531 (moderate to strong), but it's just raw, shapeless power. Saturday the 5th is more of the same onshore junk.

We get a small break on Sunday morning the 6th. The wind goes light offshore from the ESE at 9 mph, and the surf drops to a clean 2ft from the NNW, period of 8 seconds. Combined energy is a weak 55. It’s clean and tiny, surfable for a beginner, but don't get excited. The rest of that day and Monday are either too small or blown out.

Things stay grim all the way through the second week. There's a brief pulse of 6ft from the west on Tuesday the 8th, but it comes with a fresh cross-onshore wind and a combined energy of 268 (moderate). It's lumpy junk. Another pulse on the 9th shows a longer 9-second period from the NW with 307 energy (moderate) in the afternoon, but it’s still cross-onshore and choppy.

The only real highlight, and I mean the *only* one, is the morning of Tuesday, September 16th. We get a clean 6ft NNW swell with a 7-second period, combined energy at 297 (moderate). The wind is a slight offshore from the ENE at just 3 mph – basically glass. For Noorderstrand, that's the best you'll see in this forecast. It's a fun, clean size for an intermediate. But this is two weeks out, so keep your expectations in check. The afternoon goes onshore and ruins it.

The rest of the run into the 18th is too small, too windy, or both. There's a lot of onshore wind and short-period slop. Honestly, for a paddle surfer, the only day on the calendar is the morning of September 16th. Otherwise, with all that wind and swell, the kite surfers might have a better time on the bigger, messier days.

Rusty.

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