Eastbourne Surf Forecast and Surf Report

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Alright, folks, Rusty here. Let’s be straight with you – looking at this 16-day window for Eastbourne, it’s a tough one. We’re staring at a long stretch of nothing but tiny, chopped-up leftovers. There are no good surf options on the table for the foreseeable future, and that’s just the reality of this stretch.

We start off today, Tuesday the 15th, with nothing but ankle-biters. A 0.3ft dribble from the SW with a weak energy reading (3) and a moderate cross-off breeze. It’s clean, but there’s not a wave to ride. That’s the theme for the next couple of days – we see a little pulse of 2ft on Wednesday morning from the WSW, but the period is a weak 6 seconds, and the energy is still tiny (24). It’s not going to do anything for a sheltered spot like this. We’re in a bit of a dry spell here.

Now, things get a little interesting, but not in a good way, on Thursday the 17th. We’ve got a jump in size with 7ft of SW swell, and the energy jumps to a moderate 342. But before you get excited, the period is a short, crumbly 7 seconds, and the wind is a fresh 30 km/h cross-off. That’s going to be a jumbled, messy 6 feet, and for a beginner spot, that’s way too much and poor quality. This is a beach setup, so with that short-period swell and strong wind, this looks a lot more interesting for the kite surfers than for us paddle surfers. We’re not getting a wave here.

Following that, we drop right back off again. From Friday the 18th all the way through to the 28th, we are in a serious flat spell. There are days with nothing on the charts at all, and when there is a ripple, it’s 0.3ft or 0.6ft of slop. The energy is consistently weak, with values barely scratching past 10. The winds are mostly cross or light, but it doesn’t matter because there’s nothing to push around. There’s a glassy moment on Monday the 21st, but it's on a 0.6ft, 8-second wave, which is just a bump. It’s a long, blank run that’s pretty normal for this area when the conditions are this locked up.

We finally see a faint glimmer of hope on Friday the 25th. We get a 0.3ft wave from the SW but with a long 16-second period. The energy is still weak (14), but that long period shows there’s some push out there. It’s a sign of things to come, but it’s still too small to be rideable here. The same goes for Saturday the 26th, with a 12-second period but still only 0.3ft. The water temp is about average for this time of year, so at least the wait won’t be freezing.

Then we close out the window on the 29th and 30th with more of the same – tiny waves and onshore winds starting to build, making things lumpy. We have a 0.6ft bump on Tuesday the 29th, but the fresh cross-onshore wind will make it a mess. It’s a poor run, plain and simple. There’s nothing here worth the drive. We need a proper groundswell with some southwest in it to get this place going, and we just don’t have it. Keep the board in the car, boys.

Rusty.

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