Big Wave Bay Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright mates, let’s be straight with you. The next couple of weeks are looking like a proper flat spell for Big Wave Bay. The swell is just not happening and the wind is mostly making things ugly. It’s a dry spell, no doubt.

The 16th and 17th are basically a bust. We’re talking ankle-biters with onshore and cross-onshore winds. The energy is next to nothing at just 2 (weak). Save your energy.

Monday the 17th has a clean light breeze in the morning, but the surf is a tiny 0.3ft. Not worth the trip.

There’s a slow, sorry bump from the 18th to the 20th, but the wind is cross or cross-onshore, and moderate to fresh, making it all choppy and lumpy. Wave energy gets going a touch, reaching 94 (moderate) on the morning of the 20th, but it’s a short-period, weak 4ft of windswell. It’s messy.

We finally see clean conditions on Friday the 21st. There’s a cross-offshore breeze in the morning, and the afternoon goes full offshore at 25 km/h. But the swell story is a letdown, dropping back down to 2ft. It’s clean, but there’s nothing to ride.

A similar story on the 22nd with clean, cross-offshore winds but even less swell, bottoming out at 1ft. The weekend of the 23rd brings the wind onshore and the swell is still small and weak. All this poor energy is reflected in the low combined energy readings, mostly between 7 and 27 (weak).

The last week of August, from the 24th to the 31st, is more of the same. The swell stays small with the occasional jump in period, like a 15-second pulse on the 24th, but the height is a pathetic 0.3ft. The winds stay stubbornly cross-shore or onshore and fresh to strong, particularly on the 27th with a strong breeze at 40 km/h making a mess.

The best window of the whole 16 days is the 29th and 30th, but that’s only relative. On the 29th afternoon we get some energy (69 – moderate) and 4ft of east swell, but with a gentle cross-onshore. Then on the 30th morning, the wind turns cross-offshore and the surf is clean at 3ft, with energy around 52 (moderate). It’s not firing, but it’s the closest to a surfable wave you’ll see.

There is no standout in this window. Nothing that gets the heart racing. A real flat run.

Rusty.

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