Friday 4/17/26 WFL update below:
Come back waves!! No se vayan todavia!! April has been so fun wave-wise. It’s not over yet but the weekend looks pretty calm down here. While were waiting for more surf check out the April galleries at www.rinconsurfphotography.com.
I love this shot of my neighbor Ty! This was shot at 250mm 1/1600 f11 on a cloudy, rainy Monday before it flooded. 15 years of shooting in Rincón and I always wanted to try this. I called this day “surf trip waves” bc it’s the kind of waves you imagine scoring on a summer surf trip with your buddies, so glad I put the camera up and got some also!
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Friday WFL Surf Updater 4/17 8am: The weekend is looking calm and then we have a cool front passing on Monday. Wave models are not impressed at all. Slight seas and solid offshore flow behind this late April cool front. All that is expected is a 1ft/knee high N log line at some point on Monday. The GFS tries to stir up a gulf low in a week from now but it’s hardly worth a mention, weak at this point. Hang in there guys… The front pushes out into the ATL and forms a pretty good low. Check the EC forecast and PR looks to continue it’s run of fun April surf if you can make it down.
Details by Diaco updated 4/13 Hoping for cold front surf next Monday.
NW PR 4/17
Michelle, my massage therapist on a nice wave at Indy last Monday.
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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…
thanks man for the report!! a couple spots look fun this am, AMI and NVJ
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. 😀
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
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…
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.
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!!
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
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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