Centreville Beach Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, this is Rusty lookin' at the next couple weeks for Centreville Beach.

Honestly, mate, it's a tough stretch to get excited about. For the next week and a half, from Sunday the 16th right through to Thursday the 27th, it’s just a run of poor surf conditions. The wind is stuck in a cross-on or onshore pattern (NNW or N), creating choppy, messy surf with moderate energy levels (swell energy between 149 and 630). The swell is there, mostly from the SW and coming in around 1ft to 4ft, but the wind just ruins it. Even with a longer period groundswell (16 to 19 seconds) on some days, the clean shape just isn't there. You'd be battling the chop all session, not the wave. There’s nothing worth paddling out for here in the first nine days.

The only faint glimmer, and I mean faint, pops up much further down the line, on Friday the 28th. The morning shows a pulse of NW swell hitting 8ft with a period of 9 seconds and a big jump in energy (1231), and the afternoon is similar at 8ft. The forecast notes it as “marginal,” which mostly comes down to that cross-on wind. For a beach break, this size and short-period combo with moderate cross-onshore wind will be a washing machine. Honestly, unless you’ve got a big kite and a death wish, this setup is more interesting for kite surfing than paddle surfing. It’s too big (over 8ft) for most and the wind makes it an expert-only mess. After that brief pulse, it drops right back to small, poor, cross-on slop through the end of the month.

So, for the full 16 days, there isn't a single standout, no clean windows. It's a blank run. The water temp anomaly isn't mentioned here, so no special news on that front.

Keep the board in the car, but don't bother waxing it up just yet. Forecasts can change, but this one looks like a long, quiet stretch.

Rusty

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