Sandy Hook/The Cove Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright folks, Rusty here. Let's talk about what's cooking for the next couple of weeks.

Gotta be honest with you, it's a tough stretch. The forecast for Sandy Hook/The Cove is a real dry spell. We're looking at a solid run of poor surf conditions with no real standout sessions to get excited about. The swell is tiny, the wind is often messy, and the scores tell the whole story. There's nothing but a flat spell for the entire 16-day window.

The water temp is about what you'd expect for this time of year, so no worries there. But the energy just isn't there. The combined swell energy is weak, peaking at just 90 (which is considered weak) on Saturday morning, but even then it's onshore wind making a mess of things. For the rest of the period, we're looking at combined energy values well under 100, most of the time in the teens, twenties, and thirties. Just a whole lot of nothing.

Tuesday morning (July 21st) is a write-off with a storm risk and a 19 mph cross-shore wind. The afternoon isn't much better. The best of a bad bunch might be Wednesday morning (July 22nd) with some 2 ft swell from the SSE and a clean offshore wind from the W at 12 mph. It's surfable, but very ordinary. The swell period is a weak 9 seconds, so not much push. That's the closest we get to a highlight, and it's a pretty low bar.

After that, it's a long, slow grind of tiny, onshore, or cross-shore chop. Even when the wind goes offshore again on the 28th, the swell is down to 1 ft. There's a moment of glassy conditions on August 5th, but with only 1 ft on offer, it's barely a ripple. Honestly, for a beach and reef setup like this, with such small, weak swell and poor wind, it's more interesting for the kite surfers than for us paddle guys. There's just no good surf on the cards.

Keep the faith, though – it tends not to stay this flat for long.

Rusty.

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