Clovelly Bombie Surf Forecast and Surf Report

G’day, Rusty here. Look, I’ve gotta be straight with you – this 16-day outlook for Clovelly Bombie is a real tough one. It’s not looking like a run of classic surf at all. We’ve got a whole lot of days where the swell is just too small or the wind is messy, and the overall energy is weak. For a deep-water bombie like this, we need some juice, and it’s just not showing up.

Let’s start with the first decent moment. On Sunday the 30th of August, we see a little pulse: a 2ft swell coming from the SSE with a period of 9 seconds. The combined energy is weak at 76. The wind is a light cross-onshore from the ESE at 6 mph, so it’s just small and bumpy. The water temp is sitting at 63°, which is about 1° cooler than normal for this time of year – nothing too wild, pretty average for a winter water temp. Honestly, this is not the day to paddle out.

We scrape through the rest of the week with nothing worth getting wet for. There’s a brief flash on Tuesday the 1st of September – the afternoon shows a 4ft swell from the NE, but the period is a rubbish 5 seconds, so it’s just windswell with no push. The wind is light and cross-offshore from the NNW, so conditions look clean, but the wave quality is poor. The energy is only 97.

From there, it’s a bleak stretch right through until the middle of the second week. We get a streak of days with tiny 1ft to 1ft swells and onshore or cross-shore winds. The best you can say is that on the 5th of September, Saturday afternoon, we get a strong offshore wind from the west at 25 mph and clean conditions – but the swell is a pathetic 1ft with a 6-second period. That’s just unrideable.

The only real standout in the whole forecast comes on Friday the 11th of September, in the afternoon. We see a 1ft swell from the SSE, but the period jumps up to a very long 21 seconds. That sends the combined energy into the moderate range at 104. The wind is a moderate cross-onshore from the NE at 12 mph, which will chop it up, but for a bombie like Clovelly with that kind of period, there could be a rare, clean set sneaking through. It’s a long way out though, so keep an eye on it.

Outside of that Friday the 11th, this forecast is a total dud for Clovelly Bombie. There are big gaps of 4 or 5 days at a time with absolutely nothing recommended. The break itself is an inconsistent, advanced reef, so a poor run like this is actually more normal for the area – it takes a very specific, big swells to light it up.

Stay patient. Sometimes it pays to wait for the forecasts to change.

Rusty.

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