Centreville Beach Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, this is Rusty. Let’s have a look at what’s coming up for Centreville Beach.

Honestly mate, it’s a tough stretch ahead. The next couple of weeks are looking pretty grim for any kind of quality surf. I’m seeing a lot of cross-onshore wind and messy conditions, with very few windows of clean surf. The best we’ve got is a short-lived pulse on Monday morning, July 6th, but even that comes with a warning.

Monday morning, the 6th, we get a brief glimmer. A 5 ft swell from the NW with a short period of 8 seconds (weak energy at 756) and a light offshore wind from the WNW at 6 mph. The water is a bit colder than normal at 53°. It’s an exposed spot, so that NW swell has a chance, but the short period and the “marginal” tag mean it's not something to get too excited about. For an advanced crew only – that size and the conditions won’t be forgiving.

From Monday afternoon right through the rest of the week and into the next, it’s mostly poor. The wind keeps swinging onshore or cross-onshore, the swell stays bumpy, and the wave quality is shot. We see a couple of bigger pulses on July 7th (Tuesday morning) with a 3 ft, 20-second groundswell from the SW that has a lot of energy (1119), but the NNW wind at 9 mph is onshore, so it’ll be a messy, blown-out 3 ft. Same story on Thursday the 9th and Sunday the 12th, when NW swells push up to 7 ft and 7 ft, but those come with 16 mph cross-onshore winds – too big and too choppy for a decent paddle. That setup on the 9th afternoon, with that 7 ft NW swell and strong cross-onshore wind, looks more like a kite-surfing session than a day for a board and fins.

There’s a small window on Wednesday morning, July 15th, with a clean-ish 3 ft from the WNW, a 10-second period, and a cross-shore wind from the SW at 9 mph. It’s still just “poor” in the data, but it’s the least offensive of the lot. A long way out on July 16th (Thursday morning), there’s a 2 ft, 19-second groundswell from the WNW with moderate energy (644), but again, it’s paired with a cross-onshore 9 mph wind. It'll be clean in the sense of long-period lines, but the cross-onshore breeze will kill the shape.

Bottom line: this is a long, dry run for Centreville Beach. If you’re desperate, Monday morning July 6th is your only real, brief look. Otherwise, it’s a two-week stretch of chop and poor conditions. Don't expect much to change – this area can go quiet, and this is one of those times.

Rusty.

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