Croyde Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, folks, Rusty here. Let's have a proper look at what the next couple of weeks have in store for us. I'll be straight with you – it's a tough period ahead for Croyde. The forecast is showing a lot of wind and messy conditions, so we're going to have to be patient. There’s a big stretch of poor quality surf to get through before a small window of clean waves shows up, and way out at the end there's a hint of something bigger, but that’s a long way off.

Right now, from Monday the 7th right through to Sunday the 13th of September, it’s pretty much all on the nose or cross-onshore, with 9 to 22 mph winds. The swell is there, between 3 ft and 7 ft, mostly from the W or WSW, but it's all messed up by the breeze. The energy is moderate (1373 combined energy) dropping down to weak (64 combined energy) at times, but it's not doing any good. We’re looking at fresh cross-onshore lumpy conditions and just poor surf. Not worth paddling out for.

That continues right through the next week, from Monday the 14th through to the end. The wind stays mostly fresh cross-onshore with swell in the 5 ft to 8 ft range, but it's all junk.

Now, here's the one bright spot I can see. On Tuesday the 15th of September, early morning, things look like they might finally come together. The wind will be glassy, just a slight air from the WNW at 3 mph. We’ll have chest to head high swell, about 5 ft from the W with a steady 7-second period. The combined energy will be a moderate 251. The call right now is for glassy surf, and for Croyde, that’s a big deal. This window looks clean, and the advice is to be out there early because by afternoon the wind will swing onshore.

Then, after that, it gets sketchy again. The wind remains strong and cross-onshore through Wednesday the 16th and Thursday the 17th, when a big push of swell arrives – we're talking 10 ft to 13 ft from the W with 10-second periods and a very strong combined energy of 3012. But with 22 to 28 mph winds, that’s a full-on mess. That's expert only territory, but with that wind, even the experts will be watching from the car park.

The end of the run, around Tuesday the 22nd of September morning, shows a bit more promise with some cleaner, cross-offshore winds, 6 ft from the W and an 8-second period, but it's marginal, so it will depend on a lot of factors.

So in short: there is no standout surf for the next week and a half. The best bet is to hold out for that Tuesday morning window on the 15th. Otherwise, the conditions are grim. It won't stay this messy forever, forecasts do change, but right now we're in a rough patch.

Rusty.

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