Spring Lake Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, let’s break it down in feet and all that.

Spring Lake’s looking at a pretty flat and quiet stretch ahead over the next couple of weeks. The swell energy is just not making its way in with any real punch, so we’re mostly looking at tiny waves that won’t get much of a crack. There’s a long gap right now with nothing really rideable, so you're better off leaving the boards in the car for a while.

The 16th starts with a small 1ft SSE windswell with a 6 second period, and a combined swell energy of just 21, which is about as weak as it gets. And it’s cross-on. Not worth paddling out. That pattern holds for days. We barely scrape into a 3ft wave on the morning of the 17th with a touch of offshore NW wind at 10 km/h—that’s the cleanest moment of the early window, but the wave itself is pretty weak, only 3ft from the SSE and short period at 6 seconds, so it's going to be soft and won't shape up much. Monday afternoon turns glassy with a 3ft swell? Yeah, also small.

The rest of the week into the next is just more of the same. Small, short-period SE and ESE swell with mostly cross or onshore winds, so messy and tiny. Even when that swell period does climb—like on the 24th and 25th, hitting 11 to 15 seconds—the swell height is still only 1ft. That’s groundswell but without the size, so there’s nothing to push it. The combined energy on the 26th and 27th finally climbs into the low triple digits—108 on Wednesday afternoon, 118 on Thursday morning—and that’s the best on offer. Thursday the 27th morning gets a 2ft SE swell with a clean cross-offshore WSW breeze at 12 mph. It’s the best looking combo of the whole outlook: clean, light offshore-ish, and a little more energy behind it. But it's still only 2ft. Not something you’d get too excited for.

The real standout across this whole 16 days? Thursday the 27th morning at Spring Lake. The swell direction from the SE, though not the ideal optimum ENE, gets some cross-offshore help, and it’s the most promising of a pretty mediocre bunch. Still, these waves are small—under 3ft the whole time—and on the bigger side of things it stays in the beginner-friendly range, even at its peak. For experts, there’s nothing here. Even the bigger energy on the 27th and 28th (around 118) isn’t producing surfable waves because the height is just too small.

Probably best to check back in later. Not much to chase here.

Rusty

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