Folly Beach Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, Rusty here. Let’s chew the fat on what’s headed our way for the next couple of weeks.

Honestly, partner, I’m staring at this 16-day outlook and it’s a straight-up drought. There’s not a single session worth wetting a suit for. The whole stretch is a bust for decent surf. We’re looking at a gap of over a week and a half with no real recommendations, and the few bits of swell that do pop up are tiny, weak, and all chewed up by the wind.

The first little flicker of something, if you can even call it that, is on Friday, August 7th, at Folly Beach. We’ve got a puny 1.0ft SE swell, but it’s got a short 7-second period on it. The combined energy is a weak 91, and with a cross-on wind, it’s just choppy junk. The water temp is sitting at 86°, which is a touch warmer than normal for this time of year.

We drift through the weekend into the next week, and it’s the same sad story. The swell barely shows a pulse. Saturday the 8th drops to 0.8ft, Sunday the 9th is flat at 0.5ft with a glassy morning but no power. There’s a *very* brief moment on the morning of Friday, August 14th, where we get a clean 1.0ft SSW swell with a 6-second period, and for the first time, we get offshore wind out of the NW. The energy is still a weak 51. It’s clean, but the swell is just too small and weak to do a thing with.

From the 15th all the way to the 22nd of August, the story doesn’t change. We’re scraping the bottom with 0.2ft to 0.6ft waves, short periods, and mostly cross or onshore breezes. Even when the wind goes clean, there’s nothing underneath it. The combined energy never gets above a pathetic 79. For a spot like Folly Beach that’s fairly exposed, this is a proper flat spell. A setup like this, with so little wave energy and messy wind, looks more interesting for a kite than a paddle.

That’s the whole story. There is no standout session here. Not one. It’s a dry spell, pure and simple. Hope the models change their tune.

Rusty.

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