Jacaraipe Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Right, folks, Rusty here. Let’s have a look at what’s on offer for Jacaraipe over the next couple of weeks.

Honestly, it’s a bit of a mixed bag. The first week is mostly a washout for us, with onshore winds and messy conditions. The real standout, the one you’ve been waiting for, is that early morning session on Monday, the 19th of August. That’s where the magic is hiding.

We start off on Tuesday, the 4th. The morning has a clean 4ft easterly swell with a light north wind, but it’s got a short period, only 8 seconds, so it’ll be a bit walled-off. The afternoon turns to rubbish with a strong cross-on breeze. Wednesday and Thursday are the same story – a little bit of swell in the 3ft to 4ft range, but the wind is all wrong, making for lumpy, choppy surf. Nothing to get excited about.

Friday the 7th and Saturday the 8th show a bump in size, up to 5ft and 6ft, but it’s coming from the northeast with a howling 15 to 19 mph wind. That’s a messy, blown-out scenario. Sunday the 9th is more of the same – clean but cross-off with a 5ft NE swell. Still not the one.

Then we hit Monday the 10th. A complete change. A clean 2ft swell from the south, but with a very long 14-second period. The combined energy is moderate (258), and with a light offshore breeze, it’ll be glassy. It’s small, but it’s a taste of what’s to come. Then Tuesday the 11th morning is pure gold: glassy conditions, 3ft of south swell, a 9-second period, and a solid energy reading of 314. That’s the best of the early window. The wind is dead calm. It’ll be clean as a whistle.

The middle of the week turns a bit drizzly and cross-onshore, with a rising swell up to 6ft on the 12th, but it’s messy. Thursday the 13th is a write-off, but Friday the 14th morning shows promise again with a light cross-off breeze and a 3ft south-southeast swell with a long 11-second period. Not huge, but clean.

The weekend of the 15th and 16th is a bust again, with strong winds.

Now, here’s the big one. Monday the 19th of August. This is the standout. The morning is a standout. We’ve got a 6ft swell from the north-northeast, a short 7-second period, but the wind is a light 6 mph offshore. The combined energy is strong at 513. The water is a warm 74°F, which is bang on average for this time of year. For a sandbar break like Jacaraipe, that offshore wind is the key. It’s going to be firing, clean, and powerful. This is the one for the advanced crew. The 6ft is a bit much for beginners, but for the rest of us, it’s game on. Afternoon on the 19th gets ruined by the cross-on wind, so it’s an early bird session.

The rest of the window is a long dry spell of poor conditions, with nothing else worth chasing.

Rusty.

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