Devereux Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright folks, Rusty here. Let’s be straight with you: the next 16 days at Devereux are a tough pill to swallow. We’re looking at a long stretch of small, weak swell and mostly onshore or cross-onshore winds that just won’t give us a clean wave. The water is sitting at 69° – that’s much warmer than normal for this time of year, which is a weird little bonus for the paddle out, but it won’t help the surf.

The forecast starts with a few days of poor conditions. Wednesday the 29th of July has a 2ft swell from the SSW at 16 seconds, but it’s a cross-on wind, and the combined swell energy is only 301 (moderate), yet the surf is flat and choppy. Thursday morning the 30th and Friday the 31st are similar – tiny 2ft to 2ft swells, with onshore or cross-on winds, and the energy drops to 256 and 323 respectively. It’s just not doing anything.

We get a slight bump on Saturday the 1st of August, with a 4ft WNW swell, period dropping to 8 seconds, but the wind is onshore and the energy is 368 (moderate). The score is marginal, and it’s still a messy, short-period windswell. Sunday the 2nd is a little better in size, with 4ft WNW swell and a 10-second period, combined energy 337, but again, onshore winds keep it from being clean. Monday the 3rd through Tuesday the 4th sees the swell fade back to 3ft and 2ft, and the energy sinks to 208 and 145. Light cross-onshore wind ripples. Not worth a paddle.

From Wednesday the 5th of August onward, it gets grim. The swell drops to 1ft and 1.0ft, with periods of 14 seconds but very low energy – 97 on Wednesday, 69 on Wednesday afternoon. That’s weak, barely breaking. The energy does tick up a bit on Thursday the 6th (113) and Friday the 7th (146), but with onshore wind and long-period swell, it’s just too small and soft. The morning of Saturday the 8th has a 1ft SSW swell at 17 seconds and energy of 296 (moderate), but the score is still only marginal. The afternoon of the 8th shifts to a 2ft WNW windswell, and again, cross-on wind kills it.

The second week is a ghost town. Sunday the 9th through Thursday the 13th of August sees swell heights between 1ft and 2ft, periods from 15 to 21 seconds, and energy levels from 164 up to 331. The best of those is probably Tuesday the 11th afternoon with a 2ft SSW swell, 18-second period, and 331 energy, but it’s onshore and scored as poor. The long period here means the little energy that exists will be very inconsistent, and the onshore wind will make it a washing machine.

There are no standouts in this 16-day window. The only day that even sniffs “marginal” is the morning of Saturday the 8th of August, but even then, it’s a 1ft, low-energy, long-period swell with onshore wind. That’s not a day to get excited about. We’ve got a solid two-week gap of nothing worth recommending. For a reef and point like Devereux, this is a quiet spell. The setup is clean and exposed to the west, but the swell just isn’t cooperating. If you’re desperate, you might get a knee-high wave on the Saturday morning of the 8th, but don’t hold your breath.

Hang in there, mates. This stretch is a bummer, but it won’t last forever. The ocean always comes back.

Rusty.

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