Chia Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright folks, Rusty here. Let’s have a look at what’s cooking for Chia over the next couple of weeks. I gotta be straight with you – this is not a pretty picture. We’re looking at a long, blank stretch. There is almost nothing on offer for the entire 16-day run, and the few tiny pulses of energy that show up are so weak and poorly aligned that they’re barely worth a second look.

The first recommendation doesn’t even pop up until Saturday the 29th, and that’s a real low-energy affair. The water temperature here is sitting at 84°, which is a whopping 5° warmer than usual – that’s a very unusual anomaly for this time of year, so you’ll be sweating in a spring suit, if you even bother.

Saturday morning the 29th gives us our closest thing to a highlight. There’s a tiny 3 ft swell rolling in from the west, with a period of 7 seconds – short-period wind swell, nothing special. The combined energy is a weak 83 (just under the triple digits). The wind is light offshore from the northwest, making for clean conditions. The wave comment says “surfable waves but very ordinary conditions” and the score is a 1 out of 10. I wouldn’t paddle out for that, but if you’re desperate, Chia is a beginner-friendly spot with fairly consistent breaks, so you could bob around.

After that, the rest of the outlook is dead. We’ve got days and days of flat spells from Sunday the 30th all the way through to Tuesday the 8th of September. A few mornings see offshore wind, but with zero to tiny swell heights (0.3 ft to 1 ft) and combined energy values in the single digits, there’s nothing to ride. Even the occasional glassy conditions on Tuesday the 8th of September morning won’t help because the swell is just 1.0 ft.

Honestly, this is one of those times where the forecast says: stay home, clean the wax off your board, and wait for the next system. Forecasts can change, so don’t give up hope, but this run looks bleak.

Stay dry.
- Rusty

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