Depressions Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Right, let's have a proper look at what's on the table for Depressions over the next couple of weeks.

Honestly, we are looking at a pretty grim stretch here. There's barely a single session I’d get excited about. The whole 16-day window is one long, flat, and messy run of barely rideable waves. You're looking at small, weak, and often bumpy conditions day after day. It’s going to be a long wait for anything worth suiting up for.

Let’s start with the here and now. Sunday the 9th is a write-off. We’ve got a tiny 2 ft swell from the SSW with a very long 15-second period, but a cross-on wind from the WSW is messing it up. The water is incredibly warm, 70°, which is 7° warmer than it should be this time of year – super weird, feels like a bath. The energy is weak (154). Don't bother.

Monday the 10th is no better. Same tiny 2 ft swell in the morning, still cross-on, still weak energy (163). The afternoon sees the swell energy bump a bit (237) but it's straight onshore. It’s just not happening.

We roll through the rest of that first week – Tuesday 11th, Wednesday 12th, Thursday 13th – all the same story. Tiny waist-high or smaller waves, often with a long period (14-17 seconds) which will make them fat and weak. The wind is mostly light and onshore or cross-onshore. The combined energy is always in the weak to moderate range. It’s honestly just a beach day, not a surf day.

The only slight flicker comes on Saturday morning, August 15th. We finally get a moderate 2 ft swell with a bit more grunt, and the energy is building to a solid moderate level (311). It's still light and cross-onshore, but the report calls it “marginal”. That's the closest we get to a wave in the first week, and it’s still a stretch.

The second week is just more of the same cruel joke. There’s a small window on Tuesday morning, August 18th, where the swell hits 4 ft but the period drops to a terrible 5 seconds. That’s pure wind slop, no power at all, and it’s onshore. Useless.

Then on Wednesday afternoon, August 19th, we see a bump to 5 ft swell from the WNW but again with a terrible 6-second period. The wind is light and cross-onshore. It's a bigger, messier version of the same nothing. The energy is moderate (321). Again, called “marginal”. Not worth the drive.

The rest of the second week fades back into the same pattern of tiny, long-period, onshore junk. Thursday the 24th gives us a 1 ft, 18-second swell with gentle cross-onshore winds. It’s still a day for the coffee shop, not the water.

So to sum it up, for a spot that is fairly consistent, this is a shocker of a run. There are no standouts, no saving grace. The best you can hope for is a tiny, bumpy wave on Saturday the 15th or a bigger, sloppy mushburger on Wednesday the 19th. Neither is really worth a session. Stick to the longboard and a cup of patience, or pick another hobby for a fortnight. This is about as poor as it gets.

Rusty.

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