Irmas/Leftpoint Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, Rusty here. Let’s break this down.

I’ll be honest, the next 16 days at Irmas/Leftpoint are looking pretty grim. We’ve got a huge gap right at the start with no decent surf on the cards. The first anything close to rideable doesn’t appear until Thursday the 22nd of September, and even that is just marginal. That’s about 12 days of nothing.

Right now, the wind is hammering out of the east-northeast at 15 to 25 mph, and it stays cross or cross-onshore almost the whole time. The surface is chopped up and messy. The swell is mostly from the east-northeast with a short period of 7 to 11 seconds, so the waves are weak and lack any real push. The combined energy is moderate, in the 100 to 700 range, but none of it matters with the wind this bad.

On Thursday the 22nd of September, we finally see some swell size, around 7 ft from the east, with a 10-second period and combined energy hitting 893 (moderate). But the wind is still cross-onshore at 12 mph, so the surface will stay lumpy. It’s a marginal call.

Friday the 23rd of September is similar: 6 ft of east swell, period up to 10 seconds, and the wind eases a bit to 12 mph but stays cross-shore. Still not clean, but it’s the best we’ll see. The water temperature is about 80°F, which is normal for this time of year with a minor anomaly, so it’s warm for just boardies.

Irmas/Leftpoint is a reef break, fairly consistent, and works best with an ESE swell. The swell we get is mostly east to east-northeast, so it’s off-angle but not terrible. It’s for intermediate surfers, so when the waves are good, it can handle a crowd. But with this wind, crowds won’t be a problem because nobody’s out there.

There’s no standout day. If I had to pick one, it’s the morning of Friday the 23rd, but it’s a long shot. The wind is never favorable, the swell never gets clean, and the period is too short to make up for it. This one’s a write-off, folks.

Rusty.

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