Lagide Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright folks, Rusty here. Let’s get into it.

We’re looking at a pretty bleak run for Lagide, a beach and reef setup that’s fairly exposed to the swell. The problem is, for the first week and a half, the wind is just murdering any chance of clean surf. It’s a tough watch.

The forecast opens on Friday, August 7th, with a tiny 2ft to 3ft swell from the NNW, but it’s blowing straight onshore from the N and NNW at 12 mph. The combined energy is weak (128-153), and the call is poor surf conditions. That pattern holds through the weekend and into the next week. Saturday morning, August 8th, the swell drops to 2ft (58 energy), and the wind is still on it. Sunday, August 9th, gets a little more size at 3ft, but the wind is cross-onshore from the WNW at 9 mph, making it choppy.

This grim cycle of onshore winds and poor quality continues all the way through Thursday, August 13th. Swell sizes bob around 2ft to 3ft, but the wind is stubbornly out of the N or NNW at 12 mph, with wave energy ranging from 99 to 189. It’s just not surfable.

Then, on Friday, August 14th, we finally see a pulse. The swell jumps to 4ft in the morning (435 energy) and 6ft by the afternoon (553 energy), coming from the NNW/NW with a period of 10-11 seconds. But the wind is still cross-onshore, and the report still says poor surf conditions. It’s bigger, but not clean.

The Standout Window

The only real glimmer of hope is the morning of Saturday, August 15th. We get a 6ft swell from the NNW (493 energy), but the key is the wind finally swings around to a light cross-offshore from the SW at 6 mph. The forecast says “expect good surf conditions” and it’ll be clean. That’s your best bet, but it’s a short-lived window. The afternoon gets messy again.

Sunday morning, August 16th, is also interesting. The swell holds at 6ft from the NNW (459 energy), and the wind goes glassy – dead calm, 0 mph from the NE. That’s a major positive, and it should be clean. However, the swell period is a short 8 seconds, so it won’t have that grunty, long-period punch. With the swell at 6ft, this is into advanced territory and may be too much for beginners.

After that, it’s back to onshore winds and poor conditions for the rest of the second week, with a bigger pulse of 7ft to 8ft around Friday, August 21st, but it’s hammered by onshore winds at 16 mph. That’s expert-only, messy, and not recommended.

The water temperature at Lagide is 68°F, which is a pretty standard -0.4°F anomaly. So, about average for this time of year.

So, to keep it real: the first week is a total write-off. The only two windows to even think about are Saturday morning, August 15th, and Sunday morning, August 16th. Saturday looks cleaner with the cross-offshore, while Sunday is glassy but with a shorter period. Neither is a classic, but it’s all we’ve got.

Rusty.

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