Indicators Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright folks, Rusty here. Let’s have a look at what’s on the cards for the next 16 days. Straight up, it’s gonna be a lean stretch. We’ve got a long gap of mostly poor to marginal conditions, with a few brief windows of something that might get you wet.

The forecast starts with a long run of onshore winds and weak, short-period swell. From Tuesday the 1st through to Monday the 7th, it’s mostly cross-onshore or onshore, with swell heights barely scraping 3 ft to 3 ft. The combined wave energy is mostly weak to moderate (173 to 867), but the winds are just ruining any chance of quality. The best you’ll see in that first week is a couple of glassy mornings on Monday the 7th and Sunday the 13th, but even then the swell is tiny and weak.

The only spot worth mentioning, and it’s a real stretch, is Indicators. It’s a sheltered point break, rated for advanced surfers, and it’s fairly consistent. It needs a WNW swell to work, and the forecast is delivering a persistent SSW and SW swell – not a great match. The water temperature is about average for this time of year, nothing unusual.

The standout window, if you can call it that, is a tiny blip on Monday the 8th of September. The morning shows a clean, offshore wind from the NE at 6 mph, with a 1 ft swell from the SW at a long 18 seconds. It’s a long-period groundswell, which can be a bit straight at a beach break, but at a point break like Indicators, it might wrap in okay. The combined energy is weak (150), but the clean conditions are a major positive. Crowds are possible at Indicators, so you might have a few others with the same idea.

After that, we’re back into onshore slop, with the next glimmer of glassy conditions coming on Sunday the 13th of September. Again, a glassy morning with 2 ft of SSW swell, but the period is a short 13 seconds, and the energy is a weak 181. It’s a skinny, gutless wave.

The real kicker? From the 15th and 16th, the combined wave energy drops to two-digit numbers (89, 135, 173). That’s next to nothing. It’s a long, dry spell for most of the period.

So, bottom line: don’t get your hopes up. The best offer is that Monday the 8th morning for a clean, if tiny, long-period swell at Indicators. Get it while you can, because it’s a desert out there.

Rusty.

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