Oceanic Pier Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, let’s get into it.

Honestly, folks, it’s a tough run ahead. Looking at the whole 16-day window, we’ve got a serious stretch of small, weak surf and it’s not looking like any real pulse is going to show up. The combined swell energy barely gets into the two-digit range, mostly sitting around a weak 48 at best, and more often than not it’s down in the teens or single digits. That's limp noodle territory.

For Friday morning, the 3rd of July, we see a tiny 2ft swell from the ESE with a short period of 7 seconds, and a cross-onshore wind from the SE at 6 mph. The water temperature is sitting at 81°, which is about average for this time of year. The waves are just poor, flat little lumps. That’s the story all the way through most of the first week. Saturday morning the 4th is glassy-clean, with a light offshore breeze from the SSW at 3 mph, but the swell is only 1ft, and the energy is a piddly 32. It’s pretty to look at, but you’d be fighting for a knee-high ripple.

The wind does turn clean and cross-offshore through a lot of the mornings, especially from the 6th onwards, but there’s just no push. The swell stays stuck between 1ft and 3ft, and the period is almost always under 10 seconds. The 13th of July Monday morning actually goes glassy, with a 1ft swell from the SE (51 energy), and the 14th Tuesday morning is glassy too with a 2ft SE swell (50 energy) – those are the cleanest conditions of the whole outlook. But even then, the waves are called poor. They’re not going to have any shape or power to speak of. For a beginner at Oceanic Pier, these tiny, clean days might be the only time you’d even paddle out, but for anyone looking for a proper wave, there’s nothing doing.

The second week is more of the same. Tiny swell, clean winds at times, but just no energy. There’s a big gap of days where you can basically write off any decent surf from about the 5th of July right through to the 18th. It’s a long, flat spell.

There aren’t any standouts here. The best on offer, and I say that with a heavy heart, would be the glassy mornings of the 13th and 14th of July. Because the swell is under 5ft, it’s not dangerous for beginners, but with combined energy barely over 50, it’s just small and weak. The conditions will be clean, but the wave quality is poor.

Honestly, this looks like a stretch where the kite surfers might get more out of it than we will, especially on the afternoons when the wind picks up to a fresh breeze.

Stay patient. It’s a blank run.

Rusty.

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