Baleal Sul Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright folks, Rusty here. Let's take a good hard look at what Baleal Sul has in store for us over the coming days. Gotta be straight with you, this forecast is a bit of a rough one. Nearly the entire 16-day window is filled with "poor surf conditions" thanks to windy, onshore, or cross-onshore breezes that just won't quit. The swell hangs around but the quality is just not there.

For the first week and a half, from Friday the 28th of August right through to the afternoon of Thursday the 10th of September, you're mostly looking at onshore and cross-onshore winds from the north and northwest. Morning sessions on the 31st of August and the 1st of September see wind speeds up to 19 mph, which will make things rough. There's a bit of a bump around the 2nd of September with swell heights hitting 7 ft, but that's accompanied by a short 8-second period and moderate cross-onshore winds, so it's messy. The combined wave energy gets up into the moderate range then, but the onshore wind just kills it. There's a sniff of a glassy moment on the morning of Saturday the 5th of September, with only 3 ft of swell and a 3 mph glassy breeze, but that swell is tiny and short-period. That's about as good as it gets for a while, and I'm calling it "surfable but ordinary".

The only real stand-out – and I mean the *only* one worth getting a little excited about – arrives on the morning of Sunday the 6th of September. We see a jump in swell height to 4 ft with a much longer period of 13 seconds, and a light onshore breeze from the NNW. The combined energy is solid, and that longer period means it won't be as choppy. It's still onshore, but the light wind and long-period groundswell should offer some cleaner, more lined-up sets. The afternoon of the 10th of September also shows some promise with a 7 ft, 12-second swell from the NNW and light cross-onshore breezes, putting the energy way up there. That's a decent push, but it's still a bit cross-onshore. For a beginner break like Baleal Sul, you're looking for that glassy, clean window, and outside of that Saturday morning the 5th, it's mostly a battle with the wind.

Water temp is sitting at 67°F, which is about normal for this time of year.

After the 10th, the swell drops right off, and we're stuck with small, wind-affected leftovers through to the 12th of September. There's just not much to recommend.

This is Rusty, signing off. Keep an eye on the sky, but don’t hold your breath.

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