Laundromats Surf Forecast and Surf Report

G’day, Rusty here.

Well, look, I've had a good long look at the charts for the next couple of weeks, and I've got to be straight with you: it's a pretty bleak stretch for a surf. We're looking at a long, drawn-out period of tiny, weak surf, and I'm not going to sugar-coat it. The good news is there are a few brighter moments, but they are a long way off.

The next week to ten days is a write-off, plain and simple. For the first stretch, we're looking at ankle-biters. Swell heights are hovering around the 0.6ft to 2ft mark, with short, weak periods, mostly in the 8-10 second range. The energy readings are painfully low, with values in the 20s, 30s, and 40s—we're talking about weak wave energy, barely a pulse. Winds are all over the place, with a lot of cross-shore and cross-onshore stuff, which just adds to the mess. Wednesday morning the 17th does go glassy with a tiny 0.6ft, but it's not worth paddling out for. You'd be doing more floating than surfing. From the 11th through the 18th, the conditions are mostly poor, with a lot of chop and lumpy seas. It's a lot of nothing.

Finally, on Saturday the 19th, things start to jostle awake. We see a jump in swell to 5ft on the Saturday morning. The period is short, only 6 seconds, which means it'll be a bit crumbly and disorganized, but it's the most size we've seen. The energy readings are up around 202, which is solidly in the moderate range. However, the wind is cross-on, which isn't doing us any favors. This one's more for the dedicated crew than anyone looking for a clean session.

The real standout in this whole forecast is the morning of Tuesday the 22nd of September. We get a decent pulse of east swell at 4ft, with an 8-second period. The energy is up there at 181, and the wind is a light cross-off. That should clean the waves up nicely. It's surfable and might just be the best of a very ordinary bunch. The Saturday before it, the 19th, is bigger but messier. For the actual quality, Tuesday the 22nd morning is your pick.

Beyond that, the final days of the forecast period show new, longer-period energy arriving, like on the 17th with 12-13 second periods, but it's tiny at 0.6ft. The bigger pulses late in the window are all short-period windswell, which isn't ideal. If you're keen, you'll get a few waves on the 22nd, but don't expect perfection. The forecast for that far out is always a bit less certain, but it's the one to keep an eye on.

So, keep your board in the car for the 22nd, and have a paddle then. Otherwise, it's a pretty quiet couple of weeks.

Rusty.

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