La Push Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright folks, Rusty here. Let’s take a good hard look at what’s happening for La Push over the next 16 days. I’ll be straight with you – it’s a tough run of forecasts, and you’ll need to pick your moments carefully.

We start off on Sunday, July 26th, with a bit of life in the water. The wind is a cross-off from the SSE around 12 mph, and we’ve got a SW swell of 3 ft to 4 ft. The combined energy is moderate (658 to 1003), so there’s some push, but the forecasts are calling it marginal. The water temperature is a chilly 55°F, which is 4°F colder than normal for this time of year – that’s significantly colder than average, so make sure you’ve got a thick wetsuit.

Monday the 27th and Tuesday the 28th are pretty similar: small SW swell around 3 ft to 3 ft, but the wind is cross or cross-off, and the scores are low. It’s surfable, but nothing to write home about. The energy is still moderate (651 to 918), so the ocean is moving, but it’s not clean.

Then from Wednesday the 29th through to early August, things get messy. The wind swings to the NW, becoming cross-onshore, and the wave quality drops into the "poor" or "marginal" category. The swell stays small (2 ft to 4 ft) with a short period of 14 to 16 seconds, and the combined energy weakens from 899 down to 263. The surf is choppy and wind-affected. These are not the days to be excited.

There’s a bit of a gap in quality until we get to the first week of August. On Thursday, August 6th, the swell picks up to 5 ft from the WNW with a period of just 8 seconds, but the wind is still cross-onshore and the surf is poor. It’s a short-period windswell, not a clean groundswell.

The real standout, if you can call it that, is Saturday, August 8th. We’ve got a 8 ft swell from the WNW with a period of 9 seconds. The combined energy is strong at 1909, and the wind is light and onshore from the W at 6 mph. That’s a lot of water moving, and it’s big enough that only experienced surfers should be in the water. The morning looks marginal but the energy is there. It’s the biggest swell of the window, but the quality is still questionable.

The following days, August 9th and 10th, see the swell drop back to 7 ft and 5 ft, with periods of 8 to 9 seconds. The wind stays cross-onshore from the NW, so the surf is still choppy and messy. No real clean conditions to be found.

Bottom line: If you’re a beginner, stay away from the bigger days. The best bet for experienced surfers is the morning of August 8th, but even then, it’s not going to be pristine. The forecasts are marginal for most of the run, so keep an eye on the wind shifts. For now, I’d say the window is pretty flat for quality.

Rusty.

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