Anaehoomalu Bay_A-Bay Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright folks, Rusty here. Let’s have a look at what’s cooking for the next couple of weeks.

Right off the bat, I gotta be straight with you: the surf is flat. Dead flat. For the first week and a half, from Saturday the 8th right through to the early part of the week starting the 18th, we’ve got nothing but poor surf conditions and zero scores. That’s a long stretch of quiet. The combined energy readings are all in the weak zone, with numbers like 0, 8, 21, 33, never even cracking three digits. It’s pretty much a write-off for paddle surfing. The wind is light, but without any swell to work with, it doesn’t matter.

The first real glimmer of hope arrives on Tuesday afternoon, the 18th of August. The swell finally starts to show, with a little 1ft groundswell rolling in from the WNW. The period is 13 seconds, so it’s got some long-period energy, and the combined energy bumps up to 69 (still weak). The wind goes glassy in the afternoon, which is a beautiful thing. The catch? It’s only surfable, not good. The waves are there, but they’re ordinary. At Anaehoomalu Bay (A-Bay), a reef and point break, that long-period WNW swell should actually wrap in nicely, and with glassy conditions, it’ll be clean. The water temp is about average for the time of year, so no shock there. This is the pick of the entire forecast, but it’s a very, very quiet pick.

The story doesn’t improve much after that. Wednesday the 19th through to the end of the window on the 23rd offers more of the same: tiny 1.0ft to 1ft swells, periods dropping back to 11-12 seconds, and combined energy staying weak (20 to 69). The wind is mostly onshore or cross-on, killing any chance of quality. There’s a bit of a longer-period SW groundswell showing on the 21st and 22nd with a 16-second period, but the height is only 1.0ft, so the energy is just too weak.

So, the honest truth? There’s nothing to get excited about. The first real stand-out window is Tuesday afternoon, the 18th of August, at A-Bay. It’s the only day in the whole 16-day run where you might get a clean, glassy session on some tiny long-period lines. For everything else, you’re better off leaving the board in the car. It’s a tough stretch, but that’s how it goes sometimes.

Rusty.

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