Lecount Hollow Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright folks, Rusty here. Let's take a look at the next couple of weeks for our local waters. Honestly, this is a tough stretch of forecasts. The overall pattern is one of generally poor conditions with very small, weak swell and a lot of wind messing things up. There’s a long stretch of days with nothing worthwhile on offer right from the start, so don't be in a hurry to grab your board.

We’ve got a real dry spell kicking off. From Monday the 17th all the way through Saturday the 22nd, it’s pretty much a write-off. The combined swell energy is way down, barely crackling 20 to 90 (weak energy), with tiny, short-period windswell and wind directions that just won’t play nice. It’s choppy, blown out, or just plain gutless.

The first sign of a pulse comes on Sunday the 23rd, but it’s still not good. We see a little spike in period to 12 seconds on Sunday afternoon, but that tiny 1ft ESE swell is fighting a 15 mph cross-onshore breeze, making it messy. Not one worth paddling out for.

Things finally get a whisper of a chance on Monday the 24th of August. The early morning at Lecounts Hollow shows a glassy-clean setup with a cross-offshore breeze. The problem is the swell is still tiny, a gloomy 1ft from the ESE at 11 seconds. The combined energy is a weak 46. It’s surfable in the sense you might catch a knee-high ripple, but it’s barely worth the wetsuit struggle.

After that, we settle back into a long, flat, and windy pattern right through the end of August. From the 25th to the 31st, it’s just small, messy, onshore slop with fresh breezes making it lumpy. The energy numbers stay in the teens and low 30s – weak, weak, weak.

The one window that stands out, and I mean barely, is the Thursday the 27th to Friday the 28th. We get a proper pulse of moderate energy hitting (151 on Thursday morning and 203 on Thursday afternoon). Swell heights creep up to 4ft to 5ft from the ESE, and remarkably, the winds forecast clean and cross-offshore. However, the period is short (5 to 6 seconds), so it'll be a disorganised, crumbly mess of a swell. Clean, but weak and junky. This is really the only sniff of size, but the quality is still just marginal. It’s a major improvement on the flat spell, but it’s nothing to get excited about.

Overall, there are no true standouts here. The clean moments are too small, and the moments with any size are a short-period mess. If you’re a kiter, those clean, cross-off days on the 27th and 28th when the wind is blowing 15 mph with 5ft chop might be more fun than it is for a surfer. For us, we wait.

Rusty, signing off.

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