Fano Sassonia Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright folks, Rusty here. Let’s have a look at what’s cookin’ for Fano Sassonia over the next couple of weeks.

Right off the bat, I gotta be straight with you – this is a tough one. The whole 16-day window is a real bummer for surf. The finder’s come up empty, and I can see why. There's just no decent swell energy to work with. We're lookin' at a long, dry spell with no real recommendations at all from now through to the end of the period on the 21st of August.

The water is sitting at a very warm 83°, which is a whopping 5° warmer than usual for this time of year. That’s a notable anomaly, but it doesn’t help us get waves.

Let’s walk through the few scraps we get. On the morning of Thursday the 6th, it’s dead flat with a clean, light offshore breeze from the west at 6 mph. That’s a beautiful morning for a paddle or a swim, but not a ripple for surfing. The same goes for the morning of the 7th with a 9 mph cross-shore from the northwest. By Friday afternoon, we see a tiny 2 ft swell from the northeast with a short period of 5 seconds, but it’s blown out by a 12 mph cross-onshore wind. The wave energy is a pathetic 11, so it’s barely a bump.

Saturday morning the 8th offers a bit of hope: a clean 1 ft from the northeast with a 4-second period, light cross-offshore wind from the west-northwest at 12 mph. The energy is a weak 5. It’s rideable on a longboard if you’re desperate, but it’s not going to be any good. The afternoon turns choppy again with an onshore breeze.

The pattern repeats through the rest of the week and into the next. Sunday morning the 9th is clean again with a 2 ft, 4-second northeast swell and light offshore wind, but the energy is just 9. After that, it’s mostly flat or tiny, messy dribble. The 11th of August sees a 1.0 ft, 2-second period, 1 energy wave – that’s barely a ripple.

There’s a tiny window on the morning of Friday the 14th and Saturday the 15th with a clean 0.7 ft, but it’s ridiculously small. The wind shifts to a light offshore from the west on the morning of the 17th, but there’s no swell at all.

The truth is, for a spot like this, a blank run is more normal when the conditions are this poor. With no swell energy (0 to 12 in the combined energy readings) and the wind mostly onshore or cross-onshore, there’s just nothing to get excited about. The only real standouts are the clean, glassy mornings, but even then, there’s no wave to surf. This setup is honestly more interesting for a kite surfer than a paddle surfer, as the afternoon onshores and flat water won’t give us anything.

I wouldn’t hold your breath on the forecasts changing much, but you never know. For now, the boards are stayin’ in the van.

Rusty

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