12th Street Jetty Surf Forecast and Surf Report

G'day folks, Rusty here. Well, I've gotta be straight with you – the next couple of weeks are looking like a tough stretch for a paddle at 12th Street Jetty. There isn't a single surfable option in the entire 16-day window, so we're looking at a long, blank run. For this area, that's pretty normal when the conditions line up like this, so don't lose faith. The forecasts can always turn around.

Right now, starting from Thursday the 27th, we've got some tiny swell out of the ESE at 2ft, but a cross-onshore wind from the SSE at 12 mph is making a mess of things – it's choppy and poor. The water temp is 76°, which feels a touch warmer than normal for this time of year.

Through Friday the 28th and Saturday the 29th, the swell stays tiny, around 1ft to 2ft, mostly from the SE. There are moments of glassy conditions and clean surf, but with no real energy (the combined swell energy is only between 45 and 55), it's just not worth getting wet. This theme keeps going right through the first week of September. We see some clean, cross-off winds and even glassy spells, but the wave heights just don't get above 2ft. The combined energy stays weak, well under 100.

Things look a little different on Sunday the 6th of September. The swell picks up to 4ft from the E, but with a period of only 5 seconds, it's useless, short-period wind chop. The wind is onshore and it's messy. The combined energy creeps up to 79, but the quality is still poor.

Then on Monday the 7th of September, we get the closest thing to a highlight in this whole forecast. The swell is 3ft from the E, again with a poor period of 5 seconds. The morning has a clean, cross-off wind from the N at 3 mph, which is glassy. The combined energy is 96, still weak, and the waves are described as "surfable but very ordinary." If you're desperate, you might get a few crumbly little lefts, but it's a long way from good.

The last few days of the forecast, from the 8th to the 11th, the combined energy actually ticks up to between 108 and 130, which is moderate. The swell climbs to 2ft from the E and SE, and the period on Wednesday the 9th and Thursday the 10th stretches to 12 seconds – that's proper groundswell energy. But the wind is all over the place: cross, cross-on, and onshore, which keeps the surf choppy and poor. There is a morning of glassy conditions on Friday the 11th with a clean 2ft SE swell (11-second period), but again, the energy is weak at 64. It would be clean but tiny.

This break is a beach and jetty setup exposed from the NE, and with the swell coming from the ESE and SE, it's not a great match. With the wind and small, weak swell, this setup looks more interesting for a kite session than paddle surfing right now.

Signing off,
Rusty

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