Buritaca Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, let’s get stuck into it. It’s Rusty here, and I’ve been staring at the charts for Buritaca for the next couple of weeks. We’ve got a run of proper NE groundswell pushing in, but the real story is the wind and the size. It’s a bit of a tease, to be honest.

The first few days are pretty average. Tuesday afternoon has some 7ft swell coming from the NE, but the cross-on breeze is messing up the surface. It’s surfable, but you’ll be hunting for the clean ones. Wednesday stays ordinary with a bit more cross-shore wind, and Thursday morning flattens out a touch to 5ft, but the wind goes glassy. Still, it’s small and the tide feels off. Not exactly firing. The first real glimmer of hope shows on Friday morning, but the wind is still side-shore and lumpy. It’s not until Sunday morning that things finally line up – the wind drops to a glassy 3 mph and the swell holds at a clean 7ft from the NE. That’s the first window that’s worth getting excited about. The water is sitting at 83°, which is about normal for this time of year, so no dramas there.

After that, the swell just keeps building, and that’s where the problem starts. From Friday the 8th onwards, the energy jumps into the strong range, hitting 640 and pushing up to over 1000 by the middle of next week. The swell heights climb from 7ft up to 10ft. For a river/point break like Buritaca, that’s just too much. It’s going to be a washing machine – big, powerful, and basically clamping shut. The wind is also mostly cross or cross-on, which doesn’t help. There’s a morning on Tuesday the 12th with 7ft and a bit of cross-on breeze, but it’s still on the big side. The forecast keeps saying the wind and tide are favorable, but the swell is just too fat. This is expert territory only, and even then, it’s going to be a battle.

The one standout in all of this is that Sunday morning, the 9th of August. That’s your pick. Glassy conditions, 7ft of NE swell, and the period is a consistent 8 seconds. It’s a proper window for the average punter to get out there and have some fun before it all gets out of hand. The other real potential is the morning of Monday the 18th of August. That’s over a week out, so treat it with caution, but the forecast shows the wind dropping to a glassy 3 mph with 6ft of NE swell. That could be a gem if it holds. The wave energy is moderate at 529, but the clean conditions could make it special.

For the rest of that second week, it’s all about the big stuff. From the 14th through to the 19th, we’re seeing consistent 8ft to 10ft swells with moderate cross-shore winds. It’s powerful, it’s lumpy, and for a setup like this, it’s really only going to appeal to the chargers, and even then, it looks more like a kite-surfing kind of day than a paddle-surfing one. The breaks are going to be closing out left and right.

So, to sum it up: get on it Sunday morning. If you’re keen for a mission, keep an eye on that Monday the 18th, but don’t hold your breath. The rest of the window is a write-off for the average surfer at Buritaca. It’s a classic case of too much of a good thing.

Rusty.

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