Hells Mouth (Porth Neigwl) Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, let's get into it. This is Rusty, and I'm looking at the next couple of weeks for our stretch of coast. I've got to be straight with you – the charts aren't showing us much to get excited about. The whole 16-day window is a bit of a struggle, with only tiny, weak pulses of swell and onshore winds messing things up most of the time. The first real chance to even think about paddling out isn't until Thursday the 6th of August, but even then, it's a tough sell.

We'll kick things off at Hells Mouth (Porth Neigwl) . The water is sitting at 64°, which feels a touch warmer than normal for this time of year, so that's one small win. Thursday afternoon sees a tiny 2ft SW windswell, period is a short 6 seconds, and the combined energy is a weak 37. The wind is straight onshore from the SW at 6 mph, making it bumpy. It's poor, flat, and messy. Don't bother.

Friday the 7th is more of the same: 2ft SW swell with a 4-second period, energy down to 13, and the wind picks up to 12 mph onshore by the afternoon. This is a write-off. Saturday morning the 8th sees a weird 0.3ft, 11-second period pulse, but it's cross-onshore and basically non-existent. We're looking at a solid week of nothing worth mentioning.

The whole first week is a bust. We've got day after day of tiny, weak swells, often under 2ft, and the wind is almost always onshore or cross-onshore. There’s a brief moment on Wednesday morning the 12th with glassy conditions and a 0.7ft, 10-second period groundswell, but the energy is only 12 – you'd be floating out there, not surfing. The combined swell energy barely breaks double digits for days, with values like 2, 3, and 5. It's a long, flat spell.

Things stay quiet through the second week. We get a tiny bump on Thursday the 13th – a 2ft SW swell with an 8-second period, pushing the energy to 87. But it's cross-onshore again. Saturday the 15th and Sunday the 16th offer some clean, cross-offshore conditions with a light breeze, but the swell is a pathetic 0.7ft to 1.0ft. You'd need a longboard and a lot of patience.

Even as we push towards the 19th and 20th of August, the swell barely nudges up to 3ft, but the wind is strong and onshore or cross-shore, and the periods are short. There's a long-period 15-second pulse on the 20th, but it's a tiny 0.3ft with onshore wind – completely unsurfable. By the 21st, we get a 22 mph cross-shore wind and a 0.3ft 14-second period, combined energy of 21. Honestly, with those winds and the weak, bumpy conditions, this setup looks more interesting for kite surfing than paddle surfing.

There are no standout days. Nothing comes close to being worth highlighting. The forecast for the second week is just as poor as the first. We're in a flat spell, plain and simple. Keep the board in the car, but don't expect much for a while.

Rusty.

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