Three Peaks Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright folks, Rusty here with a long look at the Three Peaks stretch. I gotta be straight with you – we’re going through a pretty bleak patch before we might see a little light at the end of the tunnel. There are some big gaps in the action here, so patience is the name of the game.

Kicking off, the water temp is running much warmer than normal for this time of year, sitting around 65°, which is a real anomaly.

From now through the next week and a half, it’s mostly a write-off. We’ve got a stretch starting Friday the 11th and lasting all the way through the morning of Tuesday the 22nd where the surf is just poor. That’s a solid ten days of nothing to get excited about. The wind is predominantly onshore or cross-onshore, often strong, and the swell, while sometimes showing some energy (like the moderate energy of 311 on Saturday the 12th, or 308 on Wednesday the 16th), is always accompanied by lumpy, choppy conditions. The setups are just messed up for a paddle board.

Because of the constant poor wind and messy wave faces, this beach setup honestly looks more interesting for kite surfing than paddle surfing for most of this period.

Now, we finally get a couple of days that look alright, starting Tuesday the 22nd of September. The morning shows a clean little knee-high wave with a light cross-offshore breeze. The standouts come on Tuesday afternoon and then again on Saturday the 26th – those are your only real chances.

On Tuesday the 22nd of September, the afternoon is the best of the early week. We’ll see surfable but very ordinary conditions with a small, clean 2ft wave from the W, glassy conditions with zero wind, and the energy is weak at 76. It’s small, but it’s clean.

Then there’s a gap until the true standout. Saturday the 26th of September afternoon is your best bet of this whole forecast. We get a clean, glassy afternoon with a building 6ft swell from the WSW. The combined swell energy is strong at 327. That’s head-high plus and clean. The only catch is this is a short period swell at 7 seconds, so it won’t have that long period grunt, but for a beach break, the glassy conditions should make it really fun.

The only other mention is Thursday the 24th morning, which has a clean 5ft W swell with strong energy at 426, but it’s only on the edge of being surfable with questionable tides, so it’s a gamble.

Overall, wait for Tuesday afternoon the 22nd for a glassy knee-high wave, but hold out for Saturday afternoon the 26th for the best, cleanest, biggest surf on offer.

Rusty.

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