Arue Beach Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, I’m gonna level with you. It’s a rough stretch ahead for Arue Beach. The next 16 days look pretty bleak, but I’ll walk you through it.

The pattern starts with a bit of weak, short-period swell from the ENE, but the wind is howling cross-off at 15 mph and there’s a risk of thunderstorms Thursday morning. The wave energy is a feeble 134 (moderate on paper, but trust me, it’s messy). The swell is only 4 ft with a period of 7 seconds – that’s choppy, weak, and not worth paddling out for. The combined energy drops fast, and by Friday morning, it’s glassy at 2 ft but still tiny and gutless.

From the 16th of August onward, we hit a real dead zone. For several days, swell is almost non-existent – we’re talking 0.3 ft here, 0.7 ft there, with long periods that don’t deliver any push. The wind flips around from cross-off to cross-onshore, but it doesn’t matter because there’s no wave to ride.

There’s a brief flicker on the 19th with a bit of ENE swell, 2 ft and 8 seconds, but the wind is cross-onshore and it’s just ordinary. The water temp? No anomaly noted, so about average for this time of year – nothing unusual.

Honestly, the only thing worth mentioning is the morning of the 20th of August, when a 0.7 ft groundswell from the WSW with a long 16-second period slides in under a gentle offshore. That’s a long period groundswell, but at 0.7 ft, you’re basically floating. It’s more of a promise than a wave.

After that, it’s back to zeros and near-zeros straight through to the end of the month. The wind stays clean for some of the afternoons, but with no swell, it’s a total washout. For kite surfers, those cross-off breezes might look interesting, but for a paddle surfer, this is a long, quiet stretch.

Bottom line: no standout days, no real surf to get excited about. Just a flat, disappointing two weeks. The only positive is that breaks that stay fairly consistent can turn around quick – but right now, it’s a waiting game.

Rusty

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