Warming up this week. January 2026

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Friday WFL 1/23/26 7am above it: Next wave window is late Monday thru Tuesday. A strong cold front is now forecast to send 6-8ft NW seas at WFL late Monday. Look for chest plus choppy surf late Monday then clean cold leftovers Tuesday am maybe the coldest of the year so far which beach temps getting close to upper 30’s early. Sunday has 1ft south lines.. Incoming tide Tuesday am could help a little- 4@8NW wiht gusty NNE winds…

Wednesday WFL 7am Weekly Outlook 1/21/26 below with details:

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Wednesday WFL 7am Weekly Outlook 1/21/26 with details: The front for next Monday is looking better today on the EURO but it still may go weaker. Sometimes it’s like the big monster storm that is coming at the end of January takes some of the life out of the smaller front coming next Monday PM so even though the EURO has the Monday front blowing close to 30 from the NW, we are going to have to wait and see if that verifies. What to do? Keep your late Monday and Tuesday am flojo just in case the EURO is right. Details below updated blending the GFS and the EURO for next week.

Details by Diaco updated 1/19
Sunday 1/25: 1ft southy.
Monday 1/26: Building waist to chest cold front waves late in the day, NW winds going N. Try and surf.
Tuesday 1/27: Leftover cold front surf knee to waist high with strong offshore winds.
NW PR 1/19/26: I’ve been able to score some fun surf in the last week. Come surf with me. Below is the left at Domes last week.

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Rojuca Apartment A great place to stay in NW PR. 10mins from all the spots in Aguada and Rincon.



10 thoughts on “Warming up this week. January 2026”

  1. hd

    gonna be hard for the remainder of the swell to linger w that 4 foot plus tide drop… yesterday had some moments at the newly renourished s facing zoo…wind never really kicked up but the swell was still pretty consistent w a few occ lulls all afternoon…

  3. RUSS-D

    Dang, I was hoping to get out in the water today. It would have been the first session in over a year for me. My spine has had me sidelined for way too long, and it is feeling pretty good lately. Maybe the incoming push will spike it up a little? Ahh, the joys of being an older, injured, Gulf surfer. 😀

  4. hd

    i was hopin to go to sekret spot for dp as it holds a lower tide better than s spot but was turned off by the first 3.0 buoy ping . checked s spot in lieu of that thinking ill prob end up skimming and it was breaking right on shore w some size still (not worth breaking a board nose, been there done that) . skimmed for a few hrs at sloped beach then checked surf again at s spot . glassy dumpy one hitter closeouts w less size than yesterday. picked my poison, ill never be satisfied either way lol…cheerz

    1. admin Post author

      thanks for the reports guys! feel better Russ, good to hear from you. Next shot is late Sunday/Monday am. Hope the front gets stronger…

  5. RUSS-D

    It amazes me how different the weather patterns are now compared to when I was young. Cold fronts used to have 3 good days of waves. Strong SW winds would give us prefrontal waves, and then overnight, the NW winds would pick up. The seas would run 10-12ft, and the surf would be up all day long. Then it was road trip time down to AMI(usually the Cove) or Venice Beach for the fun leftovers. Now it seems as though we might get one day of mushy waist high waves. I miss those days and really hope the patterns return some day.

  6. Skrims

    I agree Russ-D. I remember the days of watching the Lopez Bros destroy big chunky Bellair Beach (Sand Key was off limits back then) and then catching solid clean up the next day @ Upham. I also remember paddling out in AMI and being scared out of my mind because of how big and chunky it was. Maybe it was the same waist high slop we have now, and it just “seemed” bigger because we were so young. Maybe all the dredging over the years has changed our coastline for the worse. Don’t know. It was better back then. Fo Sho!!

  7. admin Post author

    it was better -the WX patterns most years favor higher latitude storms that miss the gulf or dont hit as hard but you will still get the occasional consistent winter or stretches of 4-6 weeks with good winter surf but the fronts are not hitting the gulf as hard as they used to… that being said I remember lots of painful 3 months flatspells when I was a kid in the 80’s too.

    crazy but looks this up: climate change actually favors la nina which is not good for WFL surf, it sends the storm track high up near Canada

    its not just WFL, many EC guys say the same and PR does not get the surf it used to either

  8. MT3

    I remember all of the free parking and access to the beaches. Waves were good too. Let us see if Upham and Sunset return to Glory.

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