Las Redes Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, let's get into it. The next week and a half is looking pretty flat and ordinary for Las Redes. There’s not a whole lot to get excited about for a while, with a big gap of small, poor-quality surf stretching from today right through until nearly the second week of September. The overall pattern is one of small, weak swells and winds that just won’t line up.

Let’s start with this Friday, August 28th. The morning will actually be the best of a pretty dull lot. You’ve got a waist-high swell pushing 3 ft from the west, and that north wind is light and offshore, keeping it clean. The wave energy is moderate at best (113), but it’s surfable. The water is a very unusual 78°, which is way warmer than normal – that’s a weird one. By the afternoon, the wind swings onshore and it gets messy, with a cross-chop. Forget about it.

Saturday the 29th and Sunday the 30th are a write-off. The swell drops right off – we’re talking knee-high dribble, poor conditions, and weak energy down to 20 or even single digits. Not worth paddling out. This pattern of weak, poor-quality surf continues right through the rest of the week and into the start of September. There’s a small pulse on the morning of Tuesday, September 1st, with a 3 ft NW swell and clean cross-offshore wind, but the period is a short 5 seconds, so it’ll be soft and crumbly. The energy is still weak (45). It’s a maybe, but nothing to plan a session around.

You have to wait until the afternoon of Thursday, September 3rd to see something a little different. A fresh southeast wind kicks up a 5 ft swell from the SE, but the period is still short at 6 seconds, and the wind is a fresh cross-shore, making for lumpy, bumpy waves. The energy is moderate (156), but the quality is poor. This setup looks far more interesting for kite surfing than paddle surfing.

The rest of the first week of September is flat. Tiny waves, bad winds, single-digit energy readings. A real drought. The next flicker of hope shows up on Saturday, September 12th. The morning is glassy as a mirror, with a 4 ft swell from the ESE. The energy jumps to moderate (160), and with zero wind, it will be clean. The period is only 6 seconds, so it will be a bit lumpy, but that’s your best window in the entire 16-day outlook. It’s still over a week away, so it’s promising but not locked in yet. By the afternoon, a weird 16-second period swell rolls in, but it’s only 1 ft from the west and gets chopped up by an onshore wind. That long period is a tease.

If you’re chasing the one standout, it’s the morning of September 12th. That glassy, waist-high+ swell from the southeast is as good as it’s going to get. Get it while it’s clean.

Rusty.

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