36th Street Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Right, pull up a seat. Rusty here. Let’s talk about what the next couple of weeks have in store for us at 36th Street. I gotta be straight with you – it’s looking like a pretty lean period. We’ve got a big gap at the start, and honestly, the surf that does show up is pretty ordinary for most of it.

The first time we see anything that could be called a wave is on Friday, 14th August, but it’s barely a ripple. We’re talking about a tiny 0.7 ft ESE swell with a period of 9 seconds – that’s almost no energy. And the wind? It’s a cross or cross-on breeze, so the surface is messy and chopped up. It’s just poor surf conditions all day. Saturday and Sunday are worse again – a bit more wind, even less swell. This is a solidly bad run.

Honestly, from the 15th all the way through to the morning of the 28th, it’s basically a write-off. There are pockets of clean conditions, like Monday the 17th morning or Thursday the 20th morning when the wind is offshore or glassy, but there’s no swell to work with. The energy levels are minimal. You’re better off doing something else.

Now, here’s the only real light in the tunnel – Friday the 28th. The morning session is the lone standout in this whole outlook. We get a glassy morning with a 3 ft E swell bumping through on a 6-second period. The combined energy is the highest we see in the whole run, and the glassy wind means the surface will be clean. It’s a short-period windswell, so don’t expect it to have a ton of push, but it’s the only time the words “surfable” and “glassy” go together. It’s an intermediate wave – too small for a proper show, but it’s rideable. The wind shifts to a messy cross in the afternoon, so get on it early.

So, that’s the story. A long, dry spell and one glassy morning on the 28th to maybe scratch an itch. Don’t hold your breath for the rest of it.

Rusty.

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