Wildwood Crest Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, let’s be honest. It's a bit of a flat spell on the horizon. The next couple of weeks are looking pretty grim for decent waves. We’re staring down a long stretch of small, weak surf, and we’ve got to take a look at what we have, even if it's not much.

The first real option doesn't even show its head until Friday, August 7th. Before that, Thursday the 6th is a write-off. We're talking ankle-biters with messy, choppy conditions. Not worth getting the board wet.

Wildwood Crest (Wildwood) is the only name in the game here. It's a sandbar, and while it's fairly consistent, the surf size is just not cooperating. The swell energy is weak – dead weak. For example, that first Friday morning, the combined energy is only 84, which is a pittance. It’s a long way from having any punch.

Friday morning, the 7th, gives us a tiny bit of hope. Swell is 3ft from the south with a short, 6-second period. The wind is cross-offshore and light, which means the surf will be clean, but with that kind of size and period, it’s going to be soft and walled up. It’s surfable, but you won’t be telling stories about it. The water is a warm 75°, which is about normal for this time of year, so you can stay out in a spring suit.

The weekend is more of the same, really. Saturday the 8th holds onto 2ft with clean conditions, but the energy is still weak. The swell direction is still basically from the south, which is off the mark for what this spot prefers. It’s an exposed spot, so it catches whatever is around, but when it’s this small, it’s just not doing anything.

Honestly, the whole 16 days is a patchwork of tiny swells, with heights mostly under 2ft. The wave period is poor, often under 8 seconds, which means a mushy, short-period wind swell. We're looking at a long stretch of low-quality surf.

There are a couple of afternoons where it turns glassy, like Monday the 17th and Tuesday the 18th, which is nice, but it’s still only 1ft to 1ft of swell. It's clean and pretty, but you'd need a longboard and even then, you'd be scratching for anything. The conditions are better than the surf, which is a weird thing to say.

Look, there is one slight bright spot in all this. Around the 20th and 21st, a more defined south swell and longer period (up to 9 seconds) tries to show up, but the energy is still low and the winds get onshore and fresh. That'll just chop up whatever small waves there are. It's not looking like a surf window; it’s more like a kite-surfing window if the wind stays strong enough.

This is a classic blank run for this area, and it doesn’t look like it’s going to change any time soon. We just have to wait for the ocean to wake up. Forecasts can change, but right now, this is a tough one.

Rusty

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