Escollera Sur (Mar del Plata) Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, mate, Rusty here. Let's have a look at what's cookin' for the Mar del Plata region.

Right off the bat, I gotta be straight with ya – the next week or so is looking pretty grim. We've got a real dry spell on our hands. This first swell hits on the morning of Thursday, July 2nd, but it's a bit of a dog. There will be some solid energy in the water down at Escollera Sur (Mar del Plata) – a solid southerly groundswell pushing 7ft with a 12-second period. The combined energy is hefty at (2038), so there's plenty of grunt. But the wind is coming out of the southwest at 9 mph, which puts it right in the cross, making for a choppy mess. Water temp is sitting at 51°F, which is a touch warmer than usual for this time of year, but you won’t be feeling the warmth in that onshore junk. That afternoon, the wind swings harder onshore, and the surf quality just tanks. Forget about it. The days after that are no better. Friday the 3rd and Saturday the 4th see the swell drop away fast – down to 4ft and below 3ft – and the winds are either cross or onshore. Not a single decent wave in the lot.

From Sunday the 5th right through to Tuesday the 7th, it's a lot of the same story: small, weak swell (combined energy barely cracking 200), and the wind is mostly onshore or cross-on. There's a couple of clean windows from Tuesday the 7th morning into Wednesday the 8th with a cross-offshore wind, but the swell is tiny (5ft down to 3ft) and weak with a short period. You might get a grovelly little runner on the Wednesday morning when the wind goes offshore from the northwest at 9 mph, but it's nothing to write home about.

Then we hit another big gap. Thursday the 9th through to Saturday the 11th is a write-off – windy, messy, and the swell direction is all over the place. By Sunday the 12th, the swell starts to fill back in a bit with a long-period 11-second groundswell from the southeast, hitting around 5ft, but that combined energy is climbing into the moderate range (549-957). But the wind is straight onshore, so it's just a white-capped mess. Not for paddle surfing.

There is a glimmer, though. Looking way out to Monday the 13th of July, the pattern finally shifts. We get a cleaner setup in the morning. The swell drops a little to 4ft from the east, but the wind goes cross-offshore from the north-northwest at 9 mph. That’s clean, man. The combined energy is still moderate (303), but with those conditions, Escollera Sur could actually produce a few decent ones. It’s still pretty far out, so don’t book the trip just yet, but it’s the best thing on the horizon. The rest of that week and into the 17th is a mix of onshores and cross-off winds, with swell size staying around the 3ft to 4ft mark. Nothing else really pops as a standout.

So, to put it simply: the next week is a total bust. The only real hope is that Monday the 13th delivers a few clean runners before it gets messy again. It’s a waiting game.

- Rusty

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