Kimmeridge Bay Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright folks, Rusty here. Let's have a look at what's on the table for Kimmeridge Bay.

To be honest, it's a pretty grim outlook for the next two weeks. The whole 16-day window is a write-off for anything decent. We’ve got a long stretch of nothing but poor surf conditions, with onshore and cross-shore winds ruining any chance of a clean wave. The water is sitting at 69°F right now, which is *much warmer* than usual for this time of year – that’s a 7°F anomaly, feeling more like a late summer swim than a surf session.

The first real sniff of something surfable doesn't come until Saturday the 12th of September. That morning we see a small 4ft swell from the East, with a light offshore breeze from the NNE. It’s clean, but it’s a short-period 5-second windswell with only 93 units of combined energy – weak stuff. The comment says it’s “surfable but very ordinary”, and I’d agree. That’s it. That’s the one and only moment in the whole period that’s even worth a mention. The afternoon gets ruined by a light cross-onshore wind.

Before that, the only other spot of clean conditions is the morning of Saturday the 5th of September, when an ENE wind gives a cross-offshore breeze, but the swell is a pathetic 0.7ft. Not worth paddling out for.

The rest of the time? It’s all cross-on winds, lumpy chop, and blown-out conditions. By the second week, we’re looking at tiny swells around 0.3ft with fresh onshore winds, so there’s nothing to even get excited about. The setup here is a reef, so it takes a decent swell to work, and with the wind this bad, it’s just a mess.

There’s no standout swell here. No big groundswell, no long period, no magic window. It’s a flat, windy run. For a place like Kimmeridge Bay, that’s a normal blank spell. Forecasts can change, but right now, I’d say leave the board at home.

Rusty.

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