Hulihee Palace Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, Rusty here again, givin' it to you straight.

We are lookin' at a sleepy 16 days. The charts are showin' a whole lot of nothin' in the way of real, rideable waves. This is a waiting period.

The spot we're glued to is Hulihee Palace, a reef break that usually has a pulse, but for the next two weeks it's mostly gonna be knee-slappers. The swell is comin' from the south almost the whole time, and it's all long-period groundswell, which means good shape but just no size. The water is sittin' at 82°F, pretty much normal for this time of year.

Sunday, August 16th kicks it off with a 3 ft S swell and a 13-second period. The energy is moderate at 647, but a 15 km/h cross-on wind from the SSW is makin' it bumpy and ugly.

Then the dry spell hits. From Monday the 17th all the way to the afternoon of Friday, August 21st, the surf just fades away. The swell drops to 2 ft, the winds are onshore or cross-on, and the energy dips into the 100s. It's all "poor" or "marginal." Not worth the walk.

Your first real chance for a clean wave is the afternoon of Friday the 21st. The swell is still tiny at 2 ft from the SW with a long 16-second period, but the wind goes glassy, and the energy is 260. It's a clean, tiny wave. That 16-second period on a reef will give you beautiful, walled-up lines, even if they're only a couple feet high. It's a lonely, meditative session.

You get another glassy moment on the afternoon of Thursday, August 27th. A 3 ft SSW swell, glassy wind, and energy at 413. This is a solid small-wave window for a couple hours. The afternoon of Friday the 28th also offers glassy conditions with a 2 ft swell and energy of 214.

Now, look at the afternoon of Sunday, August 30th. The wind is blowin' offshore from the SSE at 15 km/h. That is the best wind of the entire forecast. But the swell is a miserable 1 ft from the SSW with a 20-second period. The energy is 359, so there's power in the water, but it's so small and that period is so long that at a reef break, the waves will be super straight and fast. It'll be clean as a mirror, but you'll be workin' for the one wave of the session.

The only standouts, if you can call 'em that, are those two glassy windows on the 21st and the 27th. Don't get your hopes up for any size. This is a longboard or a foamie kind of stretch. It's quiet, but this break is consistent, so it won't stay flat forever.

Rusty.

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