Le Poux Surf Forecast and Surf Report

G’day, Rusty here. Look, I’ve gotta be straight with you – this is a tough one for Le Poux. The forecast for the next 16 days is a real heartbreaker, mate. There’s a long, dry spell stretching from now all the way through to the middle of the first week of August. We’re talking over a week of hardly a ripple worth paddling for. The swell is tiny, the wind is messy, and the scores are a flat zero. It’s the kind of quiet that makes you check your board for cracks.

Things start to stir late on Friday, August 7th. The swell bumps up to 4 ft from the W, but the period is a short, weak 5 seconds, and the cross-onshore wind is already chopping it up. The combined energy is a decent 94 (weak), but the conditions are still rated poor. By the afternoon it gets bigger – 6 ft from the W with 6 seconds – but with that cross-on wind, it’s just a messy, lumpy line of white water. The wave energy jumps to 191 (moderate), but it’s a real struggle for anything clean.

Saturday, August 8th, is the best of a bad bunch, but it’s still a miss. The morning shows 6 ft swell from the W, 7-second period, but a strong cross-shore wind from the SSE at 16 mph makes it a lumpy, messy affair. The energy is high at 295 (moderate), but that’s just raw power without any shape. By the afternoon, the wind picks up to 19 mph from the S, and it’s a choppy, bumpy zoo. The swell is 5 ft, and the energy is 233 (moderate). Honestly, at this size and with this wind, this wave setup at Le Poux – a beach and reef – is looking more interesting for kitesurfing than paddle surfing. The waves are too fat and bumpy for a fun groove.

The following Sunday, August 9th, still has some size – 4 ft from the W with a 7-second period – but the wind is howling from the NNW at 25 mph, creating a cross-shore mess. The energy is 163 (moderate). The afternoon sees a slight improvement with the wind turning cross-off, but at 25 mph, it’s still a full-on battle. Monday, August 10th, drops back to smaller 2 ft swell with clean cross-off winds, but it’s just too small for any real juice.

Finally, on Tuesday, August 11th, we get a little glimmer. The morning shows 3 ft from the NW with a 5-second period and a light offshore breeze from the NE at 6 mph. The wind is clean, the conditions are rated as “surfable waves but very ordinary” (score 1 out of 10). The energy is a low 42 (weak). It’s rideable, but barely. The water temperature is running about 5°F warmer than normal at 67°F, which is already notable, but it won’t make up for the lack of proper swell.

Signing off, Rusty.

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