Le Poux Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, let’s get real about Le Poux. I’ve looked at the coming weeks and, honestly, it’s a tough stretch for paddle surfing. There are no standout days where everything comes together for a proper surf session. This area can go through these flat, wind-affected runs, and this is one of them. Don’t hang your board up for good just yet, but for the next 16 days, you’ll be doing more watching than riding.

Starting off on Sunday the 13th, we’ve got a bit of swell on the menu, around 3ft from the west, with a period of 10 seconds. The wave energy is moderate at best (212). The problem is the wind. It’s blowing onshore from the WSW at 12 mph, which is going to mess up what little shape there is. The water temp is sitting at 67°, which is much warmer than normal for this time of year—that’s a 5° anomaly. It feels like a warm bath, but the surf is poor.

Monday the 14th and Tuesday the 15th are smaller and weaker, with the swell dropping to 2ft or less and energy levels falling below 100. The wind stays onshore or goes cross-on, and by Tuesday afternoon it’s a fresh 19 mph cross-onshore breeze creating lumpy, ugly conditions.

Mid-week gets a little punchier in size but uglier in quality. Wednesday the 16th sees swell building to 5ft from the WNW with moderate energy (277 to 321), but the wind is cross or cross-onshore at 16 mph, chopping the surface to bits. Thursday the 17th has the biggest swell of the entire forecast at 6ft to 6ft from the west, but it’s a short-period 6-second wind swell with fresh onshore winds at 19 mph and rain showers. That’s not surfable; that’s just messy. At that size, it’s too much for beginners and not clean enough for anyone else.

Friday the 18th through Saturday the 19th keep the swell around 4ft to 5ft, but the pattern is the same: cross-onshore winds between 16 and 19 mph, lumpy and choppy. No good.

There’s a bit of a shift from Sunday the 20th into Monday the 21st. The swell drops to 3ft or less, and the wind finally lightens up, going light onshore or even light cross-onshore. The energy is weak (below 100), so it’s small and clean-ish but barely worth paddling out for.

Then we hit a real dry spell. From Tuesday the 22nd all the way through to the end of the forecast on Monday the 28th, the swell is tiny—mostly under 2ft, with a few spots hitting 3ft. The energy readings are pitiful, often in the single digits or teens. Even though the wind goes offshore or cross-offshore from Tuesday the 22nd through Saturday the 26th, giving us clean, glassy-looking water, there’s simply no wave to ride. The combined swell energy is as low as 5 or 10, so it’s completely flat.

The last couple of days, Sunday the 27th and Monday the 28th, show a slight pulse up to 3ft, but the wind goes onshore or cross again, and the energy is still very weak. Not worth the drive.

Bottom line: There are zero days I’d recommend paddling out at Le Poux in this 16-day window. The wind and swell never line up. If you’ve got a kite, you might find some fun on the windier afternoons around the 17th to 19th, but for a surfboard, leave it at home.

Rusty

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