Atlantic Terrace Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, Rusty here. Let’s talk about Atlantic Terrace.

Look, I gotta be straight with you – this is shaping up to be a grim stretch for any real surf. Over the next two weeks, it’s a long, slow grind with barely a pulse. There are big gaps of several days in a row where you’d be wasting your time even looking at it. For the first week and more, it's mostly tiny, weak slop and onshore junk. The winds are all over the place, and the swell just doesn't have any grunt. A few mornings might look clean, but the wave height is so small it’s barely a ripple. The water temp is about average for this time of year, so no surprises there.

Let’s run through it. Starting from the 30th of August, it’s all poor. Sunday and Monday are a write-off with tiny SE swell under 1ft and messy cross-shore winds. That carries on through Tuesday the 1st and Wednesday the 2nd. Wednesday morning actually sees a jump to 5ft from the east, but it’s a short-period wind swell at 6 seconds, and the energy is moderate, but it's blowing 30 km/h onshore with light rain. Absolute mess. Thursday the 3rd stays small and weak.

We finally get a tiny glimmer on Friday morning the 4th of September. The swell is still pretty ordinary at 2ft from the ESE with a short 6 second period, but the wind goes light and cross-offshore from the NNW, and it’s clean. The energy is weak, but for a beginner on a foamie, it’s surfable, just very ordinary. That same pattern repeats on Saturday morning the 5th – another clean morning with a light offshore NNW breeze and a tiny 2ft ESE swell. These are the best the whole window has to offer, and that’s not saying much. Atlantic Terrace is a beach and reef setup, and with the swell this small and weak, it’s really only a beginner’s splash zone.

After that, it goes back to nothing. Sunday the 6th through to Thursday the 11th of September is all poor, with heights mostly under 2ft and cross-shore or onshore winds. Not a single standout session in that whole block.

The second week is a little more interesting, but still not great. On Saturday the 12th of September, the morning brings a strong offshore NW wind at 30 km/h, making it clean, but the swell is only 2ft from the south at 9 seconds. The energy is weak, and by afternoon the wind cranks to 40 km/h, which is hard to paddle into even if it’s offshore. Sunday the 13th of September is the biggest swell of the whole forecast, with 4ft in the morning from the SSW, but it’s a short 5-second period, so it’s weak and dumpy. By the afternoon it jumps to 6ft from the SSW with moderate energy, but the period is still only 6 seconds, so it’s crumbly and borderline. It’s surfable, but just barely, and with a moderate cross-offshore wind, it’s not worth getting excited about. Monday the 14th brings 35 km/h cross-shore wind and rain – a total write-off.

Honestly, if you were hoping for a proper session, this isn't it. The only time you might get wet for a few weak ones is Friday the 4th and Saturday the 5th of September in the clean morning windows. For the rest, it’s a long blank run.

Rusty.

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