Llantwit Major Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, let’s get this out there. The next couple of weeks are looking pretty grim for any real surf. We’ve got a long stretch of tiny, weak, and messy waves on the horizon. It’s not going to be a time for heroics; it’s about managing expectations and maybe getting the cobwebs off the log, even then, it’s a grind.

First up, Llantwit Major is pretty much all we’ve got to look at, and honestly, it’s not saying much. The water is a balmy 70° with an anomaly of 8°, which is way warmer than it should be for this time of year – proper unusual, that is. But that’s where the good news ends.

We kick off the window on Saturday, August 15th. Morning has a touch of swell, 1ft from the W with a period of 8 seconds, but the energy is super weak, reading only 23. It’s glassy though, which is a plus, but the waves themselves are just poor. The afternoon stays poor, a cross-on breeze kicks up and it gets choppy.

Sunday the 16th is even smaller, 1ft. The morning is glassy again, but there’s nothing behind it. The afternoon goes onshore and bumpy. This is about as small as it gets.

Monday the 17th and Tuesday the 18th see a little more push, up to 3ft and 3ft respectively, but the period is junk, and it’s all wind-blown and lumpy. The energy readings get into the 70s, which is moderate, but it’s messy, onshore energy. Not worth getting excited about. For a point break, this cross-onshore wind is just going to make it a mess.

The rest of that first week, from Wednesday the 19th through Friday the 21st, is more of the same: weak, short-period swell, cross-onshore winds, and poor surf. We see energy values dropping back into the 20s, 30s, and 40s.

Now, here’s where we have a gap. From the 22nd to the 26th, the waves just die. We’re talking 0.3ft to 1ft. The wind does turn offshore on the 22nd and 23rd, cleaning things up, but there’s nothing to ride. It’s a flat spell, plain and simple. The energy readings are in the single digits, it’s that weak. This is a good stretch to do anything else but surf.

The tail end of the window, from the 27th to the 30th, is just a tease. A bit of swell tries to fill in, 1ft again, but the wind is all over the place, mostly cross-onshore and choppy. There’s no push, no power, just dribble.

Honestly, the only standouts here are the days with the clean, glassy conditions, like the mornings of the 22nd and 23rd, but you’d be surfing ankle-biters. With waves this small and weak, this is a period for the lake, not the ocean. If the wind stays strong and the surf poor, you might see more kite surfers out than surfers. It's a blank run, that's for sure, but it won't stay like this forever.

Rusty

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