Batts Rock Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, Rusty here. Let’s take a good hard look at Batts Rock over the next 16 days. Straight up, I’m not gonna sugarcoat it – this stretch is looking pretty bleak. We’ve got a whole lot of nothing most days, so don’t go getting your hopes up.

The real kicker is the overall pattern. The swell window is basically closed. The water temp is sitting at a standard 84°F for this time of year, so nothing weird going on there, at least.

We open up with Tuesday, the 18th of August, and there’s just zero surf. That continues straight through Wednesday and Thursday morning. We finally see a tiny pulse of 0.7 ft from the North on Thursday afternoon, but with a period of only 8 seconds and a combined wave energy of just 5, it’s barely a ripple. The wind is blowing offshore from the ENE, so the surface will be clean, but there’s nothing to ride.

The same story holds for Friday the 21st – a tiny bump of 1.0 ft from the North (energy at 10), and by Saturday morning the 22nd, it drops back to 0.3 ft. We get a long period of 11 seconds on that Saturday, which would normally be a treat as a groundswell, but at that size it’s just not gonna break with any push. This pattern of nothing or next-to-nothing runs for days.

We then hit a massive gap from about Sunday the 23rd all the way through to Tuesday the 1st of September. There are a few days in there, like the 25th of August, where we see a tiny 0.3 ft at a long 12 seconds (energy of 3), or the 31st of August with a 0.7 ft at 11 seconds (energy of 9), but honestly, that’s not enough for even a log.

There is a slight uptick on Tuesday the 1st of September. The swell nudges up to 0.7 ft from the North, with a period of 12 seconds and the energy gets to a whopping 19. The wind holds offshore from the East at a moderate 16 mph. It’s clean, but it’s still tiny. That’s the absolute best on offer, and it’s a real stretch to call it a standout. This little point break (Batts Rock) is inconsistent at the best of times, and this forecast proves it – it rarely breaks, and for the next two weeks, it’s basically a flat spell.

Look, if the wind keeps howling offshore like this and we get a surprise pulse, things *could* change, but based on this, there’s just no swell to work with.

Rusty.

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