Chirimena Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, this is Rusty comin' at ya from the beach. Let's get real about the next couple of weeks.

Look, I'm gonna be straight with you – the forecast for this region is a bit of a tough pill to swallow. We've got a long stretch ahead with very little to get excited about. The surf is mostly small, weak, and the wind just isn't playing ball for most of the period. You're gonna be scratching your head for a wave for a good while.

The first real glimmer of hope in this 16-day window shows up on the morning of Thursday, July 23rd, at Chirimena. This is a beach and reef setup, exposed to the north-northeast, and it's fairly consistent. Now, on Thursday morning, we're looking at a 5ft swell from the east-northeast with a period of 7 seconds. The combined energy is moderate (306), and the real kicker here is the wind – it's a light cross-offshore breeze from the south-southeast. That means the surface will be clean, with no wind chop messing it up. It's not huge, but for an intermediate surfer, that's the one session worth pointing your car at. The water temp is about average for this time of year.

After that Thursday morning window, the conditions fall apart again. The rest of the 16 days is a whole lot of nothing special. The wind is mostly onshore or cross-shore, chopping up the small, weak swell. You'll see a few mornings with clean conditions again, like on July 27th, August 2nd, and a couple of others, but the swell is just too weak and short-period to make anything decent. The wave energy is low, mostly in the double digits or low triple digits, which just doesn't pack enough punch.

So, there you have it. One solid, clean window on the morning of July 23rd. The rest of the time, the ocean is pretty much flat and messy. If you're desperate, you might find a knee-high ripple on a clean morning, but don't expect much. This is a tough run for the area.

Rusty.

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