La Palue Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, grab your board, but maybe don’t get too hyped just yet. The next couple of weeks are looking pretty grim for decent waves around here. We’ve got a long stretch of poor surf conditions ahead, and not much to get the heart racing for a paddle. It’s gonna be a grind for most of the window.

First up, we have La Palue. Water temp is sitting at 67°, which is a touch warmer than normal for this time of year. The opening few days are a write-off, with tiny, weak swell and messy cross-onshore winds. We’re talking about 2ft of mostly northwest windswell with a period of around 9-10 seconds. The combined energy is weak too, sitting at around 116 early on Saturday afternoon. It’s just poor surf conditions and not worth your time.

Sunday and Monday stay in the same vein: small, weak, and cross-onshore. There’s a slight glimmer on Tuesday morning though. The wind swings light and cross-offshore, and the surf cleans up a bit. Swell is a meager 2ft from the WNW with an 8-second period. The combined energy is a weak 56. It’s surfable but very ordinary. You might get a few crumbly little shoulders, but it’s not going to be a session you remember. That’s the best of a bad batch in this first week.

Then it’s back to choppy and poor conditions through the rest of the week. There’s a slight bump in swell on the 13th, with some 4ft waves from the west, but the wind is all over it, and the energy is just moderate at 341. It’s still a messy, lumpy mess. The 14th and 15th are more of the same – small, short-period, and blown out. The water gets a bit more active on the 16th, but the period drops to a junky 6-7 seconds, so it’ll be a close-out mess.

The second week really doesn’t offer much hope. There’s a run of small, weak swells with moderate to fresh cross-onshore winds. Combined energy stays mostly in the weak to low-moderate range. We finally get a pulse of proper size on the 22nd, with swell building to 6ft and then 7ft on Saturday afternoon. The energy jumps to a strong 714. But the wind is howling straight onshore, and it’s going to be a complete stormy mess. This is not a surf forecast; this is a kite-surfing forecast. The waves will be closing out and blown to pieces.

The big one is slated for the 23rd. Swell is forecast to hit 10ft from the WNW with a 10-second period. Combined energy is pumping, with a very strong 1830 reading on the morning. But again, it’s cross-onshore and lumpy as hell. At this size, with that wind, it’s purely for experts, and even then, it looks like a washing machine. This is a day to watch from the cliff, not to paddle out. It’s promising in size, but the conditions will likely be hellish. The date is the 23rd of August.

So, here’s the honest truth: there’s no standout day in the next 16 days. The swell is mostly weak, the winds are poor, and the quality is just not there. The one brief moment of clean surf on Tuesday the 12th is about the only time you might get a few grovelly ones on a longboard. Beyond that, it’s a long wait for something that has both size and clean conditions.

Rusty.

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