Broken Head Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, Rusty here. Let’s see what’s shaking for the next couple of weeks.

Gotta be honest, it’s a slow burn. The whole sixteen-day window starts off quiet, and it takes a while before anything really worth paddling out for shows up. The first solid recommendation isn’t until Wednesday the 19th of August. You’re looking at a stretch of nearly a week with nothing good on the menu.

Those first few days, from Thursday the 13th through the weekend, are just flat and messy. Swell is tiny, around 2 to 4 feet, coming from the SSE, with a short period of 6 to 7 seconds. The combined swell energy is weak, reading between 65 and 197. No punch. The wind is mostly cross-off, but the conditions are poor, and the swell direction doesn’t match what the point wants, which is a nice ENE.

We get a bit more size on Monday the 17th and Tuesday the 18th, with swell up to 7 to 8 feet, but the wind is cross or cross-shore out of the SE, period is still short, and you’ve got a cross-chop. The combined swell energy hits moderate levels, 424 to 527, but it’s just not lining up right. Not worth it.

Now, here’s the one time you want to be in the water. Mark Wednesday the 19th of August. The morning brings a clean 3 feet of swell from the SSE, but the real story is the offshore breeze from the SW. That’s going to make it glassy. Combined swell energy sits at 266 (moderate), and the period bumps to 8 seconds. The break is Broken Head (a point break). It’s pretty consistent, good for beginners, and it’s exposed, but you can expect a crew out there often. This is the standout. The water temp is about 68°, which is normal for this time of year, nothing crazy on the anomaly.

Thursday the 20th of August morning is also a good shout. 4 feet of SSE swell, 8-second period, and a light offshore from the SW (234 combined energy). Clean and fun.

After that, it’s back to the struggle. From Friday the 21st, the swell is running 3 to 4 feet, but the wind goes cross-on or onshore from the ENE, and it gets ugly. There’s a tiny blip on Monday the 24th of August morning with a 4-foot east swell and an offshore from the SSW, giving clean conditions (207 combined energy), but it’s small. Then we hit a glassy morning on Wednesday the 26th with just 2 feet – not enough to get wet for.

The very end of the run, around Friday the 28th of August, shows a long-period 14-second swell from the SSE, but it’s howling with a fresh to strong breeze at 22 to 25 miles per hour. The conditions are rated poor. That one’s a dud.

So, the bottom line is this: get on it Wednesday the 19th or Thursday the 20th of August at Broken Head. The rest of the window is a whole lot of nothing.

Rusty.

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