El Comedor Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Rusty here, lookin' at the charts for the next couple of weeks. Honestly, it's a bit of a rough stretch for El Comedor. This is a serious expert-only reef break, and it's got a real specific taste in swell – it needs it from the NNW to really fire. We're gonna see a lot of wind blowing straight onshore or cross-onshore from the NNE, which is gonna chop things up. The water temp is about average for this time of year, so no need to dig out the 5/4 just yet.

The whole 16-day window is pretty much a write-off for a good, clean surf. We're looking at a long stretch of nothing happening. The first real chance for anything starts around Sunday, August 23rd, with a small, weak 3ft swell from the North. The energy is low (267) and the period is only 10 seconds, so it's a bit of a weak windswell. The wind is onshore, so it's gonna be messy.

Monday the 24th sees a bit more size, with a 6ft swell from the NNW, but the wind is still onshore and the period drops to 12 seconds. The energy jumps up (897), but it's all for nothing with that wind. Expect blown-out, ugly conditions. That trend continues for the rest of the week – small, weak, and wind-affected.

The weekend of the 28th and 29th of August brings a bigger pulse of swell, pushing 7ft to 8ft from the NNE, but the period is short (6-8 seconds) and the wind is cross-onshore. It's going to be a choppy, brutal mess, more suited to a kite surfer than a paddle surfer. The energy is high (762), but it's pure junk.

We get another pulse around the 2nd of September, with 7ft of NNE swell, but again, it's short period and onshore wind. The pattern just keeps repeating itself. The swell direction is almost never from the optimum NNW, so the break won't be holding its best shape.

The only real standout, if you can call it that, is the morning of Sunday, August 30th. We get a 4ft pulse from the NNW with a 10-second period, and the wind is from the North at 12 mph. It's still onshore, but at least the direction is closer to what the wave wants. The water temp is about average for the time of year. The energy is moderate (426). It's still marginal, but it's the least bad option in a very poor run. The crowd factor is "often" here, so you'll have company for that slop.

It's a pretty grim outlook for the foreseeable future. When it's this consistent with poor conditions, you just gotta wait for the pattern to shift. Forecasts can change, so keep an eye on it, but right now, I'd leave the board in the car.

Rusty

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