Bicentenial Park Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright folks, Rusty here. Let's get straight into it. I've looked at the numbers for Bicentenial Park, and I gotta be honest with you, it's a tough outlook. We're looking at a full 16 days, and there isn't a single session that's worth paddling out for. The energy is just too low, and the conditions are messy. It's a real bummer.

The first few days of September are a write-off. We're talking about tiny, weak swell with poor surf conditions, and a lot of cross-onshore winds. The swell energy is barely registering, with values like 46 (weak) and 57 (weak) on Tuesday.

Wednesday the 2nd sees a small bump in energy, hitting 104 (moderate) in the afternoon with a 2ft swell from the east, but the period is 10 seconds and the wind is still cross-onshore, so it's going to be a choppy mess. Same story for Thursday the 3rd; the wind picks up to 16 mph from the southeast, making it properly choppy and ugly.

There's a brief moment of hope on the morning of Saturday the 5th. The wind goes light offshore from the west, and the water is clean. But the swell is only 1ft with just 21 (weak) energy. It's flat, plain and simple. You'd be better off staying in bed.

The rest of the first week and into the second is the same story. We get a few glassy mornings on the 8th, 10th, and 15th of September, but the swell is always tiny – 1.0ft or 1ft – with energy levels that are barely two digits. The period is short, around 8 to 9 seconds, so these are just wind slop waves, not real groundswell.

The water temperature is sitting at 82°, which is a bit colder than normal for this time of year, but that's the least of your worries when there's no surf.

Even the very end of the outlook, on Wednesday the 16th of September, doesn't deliver. The swell jumps to 2ft, but the period crashes to 5 seconds, which is just pure wind chop, and the wind is howling at 12 mph. The whole setup looks more interesting for kite surfing than paddle surfing.

Look, I know it's a downer, but this is one of those blank runs that happens. The lack of consistency in the forecast is pretty normal for this area when the conditions line up like this. Don't stash your board just yet, though – forecasts can change.

Rusty.

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