Black Pelican Surf Report & Forecast
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Current Surf Conditions
Condition Rating
Surf Height
2-3FT+
Thigh to stomach
Swell
Wind
8KTSWSW
12kts gusts, Offshore
Tide
Temperature
67°F
2mm wetsuit
Northern Outer Banks Forecast
Tim Kent •Today
Lingering E swell with favorable W becoming SW winds through midday. Fun waist-chest high waves.
Dawn-Midday: Leftover E swell from departing low pressure continues to offer fun surf, in the chest high range for the better breaks this morning. Conditions are clean with W trending to SW winds through midday. Peakier shape than this past Monday, and it is super groomed out and clean. Looks really fun, try to surf.
Afternoon Outlook: Winds look to trend a bit more sideshore S/SSW into the afternoon for increasing side texture. Still manageable, but not as good as the morning.
Black Pelican Surf Forecast
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Black Pelican Surf Guide
The expansive area stretching north and south from Kitty Hawk Road spreads surfers out across the beach, and there is usually no definitive lineup but a series of peek-a-boo bowls that plow shoreward regardless of where the pack sits, so it's possible to stroke into a good wave, snake-free. This is also a zone that holds some of the biggest surf that the Northern Outer Banks can get -- bombing nor'easter swells and drifty tropical swells tend to hold shape better here than other areas. There is... Read more