Hulihee Palace Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, grab your coffee and sit down, 'cause I gotta be straight with you. It's gonna be a long wait.

Alright folks, Rusty here. Lookin' at the charts for our little stretch, and I gotta be honest with you, it's a bit of a slow burn. We've got a whole lotta nothin' happening to kick things off. Don't even bother waxing up for the first few days. It's gonna be a quiet spell until we see some pulse come through.

Let's start with the only game in town for this whole outlook: Hulihee Palace. It's a reef break, intermediate-level stuff, and it's real consistent when there's swell, but it's exposed to the south-southwest. The water temp is sittin' at a balmy 81°F, which is pretty much exactly what you'd expect for this time of year, nothing crazy.

The first real glimmer of hope doesn't show up until Saturday afternoon, August 8th. We're talkin' a tiny 1 ft swell from the south-southwest with a 18-second period. The combined swell energy is still pretty weak at 186, so it's not gonna have any grunt. The key here is the wind goes glassy from the northwest. That'll make for a clean, smooth surface, but the waves are gonna be real small and ordinary. It's a "maybe get wet for a paddle" kinda session, not a "charge it" kinda day.

Then we get a little more interesting on Sunday afternoon, August 9th. The swell bumps up just a hair to 2 ft from the south, period of 16 seconds, and the energy climbs to 247. Still weak. But the wind goes glassy again from the west-southwest. The forecast is sayin' "expect good surf conditions" which is the first real positive sign we've seen. It's still tiny, but clean, and you might find a fun little ripple.

The week of August 12th and 13th sees the swell start to build. Wednesday afternoon, August 12th is the first time the energy starts to feel like something, with a combined energy of 809 from a 3 ft south swell at 17 seconds. That's moderate energy, but the wind is a light cross-onshore. It's gonna be a bit bumpy. Thursday afternoon, August 13th is a similar story with 4 ft from the south (15 secs, 682 energy) but the wind is onshore from the west-northwest. It's marginal, folks. Not a standout, just... better than nothing.

Honestly, the best window in this whole 16-day slog looks like Sunday, August 16th. The afternoon session has a 2 ft south swell with a 13-second period and the combined energy is 372. Not huge. But the wind goes glassy from the west-northwest again. The report says "expect good surf conditions." For this stretch, that's as good as it gets. It's clean, it's small, and it's the closest thing to a winner we've got. Don't expect barrels, just expect a clean, fun little wave.

After that, it fades back into the doldrums. The swell drops off, the energy gets weak again. We get a weird spike in period on the afternoon of Wednesday, August 19th – a 1 ft swell from the southwest with a 21-second period, energy at 230. That's a very long period groundswell, which is usually good for a reef like this, but the size is so tiny it's barely gonna break. It's a tease. The week after that is more of the same: small, weak, and mostly cross-onshore or onshore winds.

So there you have it. Don't get your hopes up for the first week. The standout, if you can call it that, is Sunday, August 16th afternoon for the clean, glassy conditions. The bigger pulses around August 12th and 13th will have more size but choppier conditions. Everything else is a flat spell. I'm Rusty, signing off.

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