Isola Delle Femmine Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, let’s get into it. The next 16 days from the 7th of August are looking pretty flat and frustrating around here for the most part. We’ve got a real stretch of poor, tiny surf coming up, and you’ll be waiting a while before there’s anything worth paddling out for.

For the first week and a half, it’s essentially a write-off. We’re talking ankle-biters and knee-high dribbles, with swell heights mostly stuck around 0.7ft to 1ft. The wind is often light and clean in the mornings, which is a bit of a tease, but there’s just no energy in the water. The combined energy values are almost all in the single digits, which tells you how weak everything is. It’s the kind of thing where you’d be better off with the board in the car just in case, but don’t get your hopes up.

Even though it’s flat, the water is seriously warm – 86°. That’s 7° warmer than normal for this time of year, which is a big deal and makes sitting out there doing nothing a bit more bearable. But there’s no surf to enjoy it.

We’ll see a few small pulses of west-northwest swell around the 19th and into the 20th, but honestly, it’s nothing to write home about. The 20th morning shows the most promise with a 3ft west swell and a period of 7 seconds. But even then, it’s only just surfable and the wind looks like it will get messy in the afternoon. The energy is still weak to moderate at best, with a value of 107.

The 21st shows a glimmer with a similar west-northwest swell of 3ft with an 8-second period, and it should be clean early. But with the NNW wind coming up later, the afternoon will get chopped out. For a spot like Isola Delle Femmine that faces west and picks up that NW energy, it will be the most likely place to find a wave, but we’re talking about small, short-period stuff. It’s not going to be a classic, but if you’re desperate, that’s your window.

Right now, the standout option is looking like the early morning of the 20th of August. It’s the first time the energy gets anywhere near a moderate level, and the conditions should be glassy with that light NNW wind. But don’t book the day off work just yet – it’s still small and the period is short. The break at Isola Delle Femmine (Palermo) is fairly consistent, but it’s just going to be one of those days where you’re working for every wave and the crowds might be out in force because there’s been nothing else for so long. Keep your expectations low, and you might have a bit of fun.

So, to sum it up: a lot of flatness, a bit of a tease in the middle of the second week, but nothing to get too excited about. The long-range stuff is promising, but it’s a long way out, so we’ll have to see how it develops.

Rusty

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