Flat and weak: 1.7ft @ 3s — short-period windswell, not worth the paddle.
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Today’s tide & surf window
When's the swell coming?
How we score it
Every rating measures the live forecast against what the 1st Street Jetty actually needs — the break works on a NE swell, west offshore wind, and a low-to-rising tide. The closer the day lines up, the higher the score.
Where the data comes from
Tides from NOAA CO-OPS; swell, period, direction and wind from the Open-Meteo marine model — refreshed every morning, free, no third-party paywall.
When a source blips we retry, then carry forward the last real reading stamped “updated Nh ago · refreshing” — never a guess. Only a true cold start shows “unavailable”. Stale-but-labelled ≠ fake.
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