Leffingwell Landing Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, let’s get into it. The next couple of weeks are looking small and pretty gutless overall. There’s no real swell train to speak of, and we’re mostly looking at windswell bumps and some longer-period pulses that just don’t have any grunt behind them. The first few days, forget it. There’s nothing to get excited about. Then we look at the weekend and early next week for the only real windows of cleaner surf.

We kick things off with a dead period. Wednesday the 5th is flat and messy, with poor conditions and onshore wind. Thursday the 6th isn’t any better, poor surf and small swell. Friday the 7th has a bit more push with some long-period SSW energy at 19 seconds, but it’s still tiny, and the cross-on wind messes it up. The energy is building, but it’s not there yet.

Then we get a couple of standout mornings. Saturday the 8th, we finally see a break in the onshore flow. It’s glassy out at Leffingwell Landing, with the swell still leaning SSW, around 3ft, with a period of 18 seconds. The energy is moderate at 391, and it’s clean. That’s a nice little window. It’s not big, but it’s surfable and clean.

Sunday the 9th morning is the next one to watch. The swell is similar, 3ft from the SSW, but the energy is stronger at 519, and it’s glassy again. That’s the best combination of swell and wind we get in the whole run. After that, the afternoon gets messy with a rising WNW wind and the swell jumps up to 4ft, but the onshore breeze ruins it.

From Monday the 10th through to the middle of the week, things get a bit jumbled. We’ve got a mix of WNW windswell and some longer-period SSW energy, but the winds turn onshore in the afternoons and mornings are only marginal. It’s not worth getting too excited about. The water temp is about average for this time of year.

The following week stays pretty quiet. There are some small windows on Tuesday the 18th, with a glassy morning and a clean 3ft SSW swell, same sort of thing. But it’s all pretty similar. There’s nothing big, nothing powerful. If you’re a beginner, the bigger afternoons on Sunday the 9th and Monday the 10th might be a bit much, but the clean small windows are fine for everyone else.

Honestly, this is a period for the patient surfer. You need to pick your moments and go when the wind is off. The standouts are the glassy mornings on the 8th and 9th. That’s your best bet.

Rusty.

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