White Crest Beach (Wellfleet) Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, let’s get real about the next couple of weeks. It’s a tough stretch, I won’t lie to you. We’ve got a long, flat spell ahead before anything even thinks about showing its face.

For the first stretch, right through the 13th, it’s pretty dead. We’re talking tiny, thigh-high slop at best with barely any energy behind it. The combined swell energy is weak, down in the single digits and low teens (12, 17, 11), so you’re just staring at a lake. The winds are all over the place, but with nothing to push, it really doesn’t matter. This is a period to fix your gear, not to paddle out.

We finally get a pulse of something on Monday the 14th. White Crest Beach (Wellfleet) starts to see a little bump, maybe knee-high, with the energy kicking up to 57. It’s surfable, but it’s still pretty ordinary. That’s the best I can say for it. The wind is light and cross-off, so it’s clean, but small. The water temp is about average for this time of year, so no drama there, but don’t expect any quality just yet.

After that little blip, we go right back into the doldrums until late in the week. That’s another few days of nothing worth getting out of bed for.

The first real sign of life doesn’t show up until Saturday the 19th. A decent chunk of north-northeast windswell is on the cards, and the energy jumps up to 205 by the afternoon. The problem is, the wind is howling onshore from the NE at 19 mph, and it’s going to be a messy, lumpy, cross-onshore mess. It’s not a surf day, it’s a day to watch the chaos from the beach. The swell is pushing 5ft, but with that wind, it’s going to be blown out.

Sunday the 20th is still a bit mixed up but the size drops off. Not a great option.

Then we get to the long-range, and this is where it gets interesting. The 24th of September. The models are showing a big one. We’re talking a 10ft groundswell from the north with a period of 9 seconds and a huge jump in the combined energy all the way up to 1527. That is strong, serious energy. But, and this is a big but, it’s a straight north swell hitting a sandbar beach. It’s all onshore, with a moderate cross-onshore wind. For a beach break, this size and direction is going to be a washing machine. This is expert-only territory, if it’s even rideable at all. It could be a legendary session for the brave, but for the rest of us, it’s a spectator event. That north swell direction is just not ideal for White Crest. It’s promising, but it’s a long way out and forecasting is always less certain a week or more in advance.

All in all, we have a long dry spell with one potential epic, or epic mess, at the very end. Tide your boards over.

Rusty

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