Anaehoomalu Bay_A-Bay Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright folks, Rusty here. Let's be straight up – this is a tough outlook for our stretch of coast, just the one spot on the cards, and it’s a quiet one.

We’re looking at a long, flat spell to kick things off. From the start right through the first week of September, it’s pretty much dead. We’ve got a few tiny pulses of swell around the 0.7ft mark early on, but combined energy is in the single digits or teens (0 to 16), which is basically nothing. The wind is a mix of light cross-shore breezes, which would have been nice if there was any wave to ride, but there just isn’t. This gap of useless surf stretches all the way from now until the end of the first week.

Things finally try to wake up a bit on the morning of Saturday the 5th. Anaehoomalu Bay (A-Bay) sees a jump to 2ft from the SW with a moderate 125 combined energy, which is a step up, but honestly, the wind is cross-onshore, so the quality is gone. It’s the same story through Sunday the 6th – the swell holds at 2ft but it’s messy. Sunday afternoon does go glassy, earning a score of “surfable but ordinary,” which is about the best we can say for this run.

The next real moment of interest comes on Wednesday the 9th. We’ve got a 2ft SW groundswell with a long 13-second period and solid energy readings of 170 in the morning and 150 in the afternoon. But more importantly, the afternoon goes glassy. That’s the closest we get to a decent window, with clean conditions on a small, long-period wave. For a reef and point like A-Bay, that long period (12-13 seconds) can actually give the waves a bit of shape, even at this size.

Beyond that, it’s a fade back into tiny, weak surf all the way through to the end of the forecast. Water temp at A-Bay is sitting at about 82°, which feels right on the money for this time of year – no real anomaly to talk about.

If you’re a beginner, there’s honestly nothing here for you. If you’re an experienced wave hog, you might get a few glassy little peelers on the afternoon of the 9th, but don’t expect much. This is a long blank run for the area, and that happens. We just gotta wait for the next proper pulse.

Rusty.

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