Fishermans (Rhiw) Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, I’m gonna level with you. Right now, through the whole 16-day run, it’s looking pretty grim for a proper paddle. There’s not one session that I’d actually get excited about. The swell is tiny across the board, and the winds are messy for the most part. Let’s walk through it.

The water at Fishermans (Rhiw) is sitting at 65°F—that’s much warmer than normal for this time of year, which is a weird little bonus, but it doesn’t help the waves.

Starting off from Friday 14th August afternoon, we’ve got a weak 1 ft SW swell with a period of only 5 seconds and combined energy of just 7. The wind is cross-off from the north at 12 mph, so it’s clean, but there’s nothing to ride. Saturday 15th and Sunday 16th are even smaller—0.7 ft and then 0.3 ft. Sunday morning does go glassy, but with 0.3 ft and 2 energy, it’s a lake.

Monday 17th and Tuesday 18th stay poor, with the swell creeping up to 2 ft and 2 ft but still short period and weak energy (12 and 42). Winds are mostly cross-off or onshore, nothing to write home about.

Then Wednesday 19th August sees a bit of a bump—4 ft to 5 ft from the W/SW, with combined energy jumping to 148. That’s moderate energy, but the wind is a strong 25 mph onshore or cross-shore, creating messy cross-chop. It’s blown out. Not surfable in any nice way.

From Thursday 20th through to the end of the month, the swell drops back to tiny 0.3 ft to 2 ft, with periods occasionally getting long (14–16 seconds) but no height to work with. The energy stays low, mostly under 100. A few windows have clean conditions—like the glassy morning of Saturday 22nd August with 0.3 ft and 15-second period—but that’s not surf, that’s a mirror.

In the second week, from about Wednesday 25th August onward, there’s a brief uptick on Tuesday 25th afternoon with 2 ft SW swell and 63 energy, cross-off breeze from NNW at 6 mph, so it’s clean but still tiny. The rest of that week is onshore wind and rain, with nothing breaking waist-high.

In short: there’s no standout here. The whole 16-day window is a bust for decent waves. Fishermans (Rhiw) is a reef that needs a proper SW groundswell and some clean offshore wind to shine, but we’re not getting either. The forecast might change, but right now, I’d leave the board at home.

Rusty.

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