Cibratel Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, Rusty here. Let’s take a look at the next couple of weeks at Cibratel. Right off the bat, I gotta be straight with you – this isn't a classic run. The surf is small, the energy is low, and we've got a lot of flat, ordinary days to wade through. There’s nothing in the opening days that’s worth getting excited about, so we’re looking at a long, quiet stretch before anything half-decent shows up.

The first real suggestion of surfable waves comes on Monday morning, July 27, with a tiny 2ft swell from the SSE, period at 8 seconds. It’s glassy, which is nice, but the energy is weak at 88 and the conditions are very ordinary. Tuesday morning the 28th is more of the same – 2ft, glassy, but the energy drops to 59. We’re just scraping by.

Wednesday the 29th is even smaller, with a 1ft SSE swell in the morning, glassy but barely a ripple. The energy is pitiful at 51. Thursday the 30th is a write-off with rain showers and poor conditions. Friday morning the 31st offers a glimmer – 2ft SSE swell, glassy, and the energy finally cracks 100 (exactly 100), but it’s still described as ordinary. Friday afternoon gets messy with onshore wind.

The first week of August is more of the same nothingness. We get glassy mornings on the 1st and 2nd, but the swell is tiny and the energy is pathetic – 68 and 41 respectively. Monday the 3rd is flat as a tack. Then, finally, a pulse arrives.

Tuesday morning, August 4, we see a 2ft SSE swell, period at 12 seconds, and the energy jumps to 159. It’s glassy. That’s the first real sign of a groundswell. Tuesday afternoon, the swell picks up to 4ft from the SSE, still an 11-second period, with energy hitting 303. That’s moderate energy, but the wind is cross-on, so it’s marginal tide conditions. Wednesday the 5th holds 3ft with a 210 energy reading, but again, the wind is wrong – cross-on in the morning and onshore in the afternoon.

The standout in this whole outlook is Thursday morning, August 6. The swell is 3ft from the SE, period at 10 seconds, and the combined energy is 227 – solid moderate energy. More importantly, the wind is glassy, calm, and offshore from the NW. This is the best chance for clean, surfable waves at Cibratel. The water temperature is 68°, which is about average for this time of year. The swell direction (SE) is close to the optimum for this break which comes from the SE, so it should line up nicely.

After that, it’s back to small, ordinary conditions for the rest of the run. Friday the 7th has a WSW cross-off breeze in the morning with a 2ft swell, which is clean but weak. The 8th and 9th are tiny again. The 10th is just poor.

So, to sum it up: there’s a long, flat gap at the start, a small but clean pulse on Thursday morning August 6, and then it fades again. The 6th is the only day I’d bother pointing the car at the beach.

Rusty.

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