Wednesday WFL Surf Report Below:
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WED 2/18/26 WFL 7am Updater: Next Wave window is late Sunday thru Monday. Details updated below.
Details by Diaco updated 2/18
Sunday 2/22: Coming up late, last couple hours of light before dark, waist high and choppy cold front waves.
Monday 2/23: Fun Wave Alert 2-4ft NNW swell, chest high on sets at best spots down south with gusty and cold N winds. Potential for fun surf.
Tuesday 2/24: Knee high glassy leftovers.
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NW PR: The gulf low is going to blow up and take a perfect track in the ATL. PR looks to have good surf starting Thursday if you can make it down, our studio apartment is open until Saturday when somebody else checks in OTW check airbnb, go with enterprise or thrifty for the car, do not use the small companies I’ve heard nightmare stories about them jacking people at the counter. aurasurf@gmail.com for photos and guide work.
This is Wildo on Thursday. I had a crew from New Jersey and they scored good surf. Photo: M Weaver.
NW PR 2/13/26: Benito Bowl Swell
PR came alive with swell this week! This is Chris, we surf Indy’s together a bunch. He’s carving Crashboat in this pic.
Ben getting barreled at Tres.
My friend Meyer high line at Tres.
Tucker from J Ville. We checked Crashboat at dawn and drove away. Next to Manglito we were getting ready to paddle out when cars full of pros showed up so finally we drove to one more spot and landed at the Well. This was Tucker’s first wave ever at Penya Blanca. All Photos M Weaver.
Rojuca Apartment A great place to stay in NW PR. 10mins from all the spots in Aguada and Rincon.
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.
Got a chuckle out of me with that booty call comment. ????