Oceanic Pier Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, Rusty here, and I gotta level with you – we are staring down a long, flat stretch. There’s not a single standout day in the next two and a half weeks, and that’s a tough pill to swallow. The forecast shows a whole lot of nothing for the surf, just tiny dribbles of energy and constant poor conditions.

Let’s break it down. We start off this Sunday, July 12th, with some tiny 1.3ft swell from the Southeast at Oceanic Pier. The water’s sitting at a warm 83.1°, which is about average for this time of year, but the swell is weak with a combined energy of just 33. It’s poor surf, and the only silver lining is that first Sunday afternoon goes glassy. Monday and Tuesday don’t get any better – the swell stays woeful or gets chopped up by cross-shore and cross-onshore winds.

Honestly, from now through to the end of the month, the biggest "wave" we see is a 2.3ft on the morning of Tuesday, July 14th, but it’s weak and from the East with a short period of 6 seconds. The combined energy is still just 66, and the wind is a lumpy cross-onshore. That’s not surfable, it’s a washing machine.

We get a few mornings with clean conditions and offshore wind, like Thursday the 16th and Saturday the 18th, but the swell is a pathetic 1ft or so with hardly any energy. After the 19th, it pretty much flatlines, with combined energy dropping to single digits or low teens for days on end. We’re looking at a gap from around July 20th right through the rest of the 16-day window where there’s nothing you’d even bother paddling out for.

If you’re desperate, there’s a tiny flicker of 1.3ft swell returning around the 21st and 22nd, but it's cross-onshore and choppy on the 21st, and then just tiny and weak through the 26th and 27th. The wind is mostly cross-off or clean, but there’s simply no swell to work with. This is one of those blank runs where the ocean’s just taking a long nap. Forecasts can change, but right now, save your energy.

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