Lowestoft Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, folks, Rusty here. Let’s be honest with you right off the bat: the next couple of weeks are looking pretty grim for this stretch of coast. I’ve been staring at the charts and there’s just nothing doing for a while. We’ve got a long stretch of flat, weak, and messy conditions ahead, so if you’ve got other things to do, now’s the time to do them.

The long and short of it is, we’re looking at a real dry spell. For the first ten days or so, the surf is just not there. We’re talking about ridiculously small, weak swells. The combined energy reading is barely a blip, nothing over a hundred, which means there’s just no push to the water at all. It’s going to be a struggle just to get wet, let alone catch a wave.

Things stay pretty hopeless from the 14th through to the 22nd. The swell direction is all over the place, mostly from the north or northeast, but the period is short, which means it’s all windswell and no power. You’ll get some clean mornings, especially around the 18th and 19th when we have a solid offshore flow, but it’s just polishing a turd. There’s nothing to ride.

There are a couple of afternoons, like the 21st, that look glassy and clean, but again, with a swell height of only 2ft and no energy behind it, it’s not worth the walk down the beach. It’s just a flat, pretty ocean.

The first time we even get a sniff of a real wave is on the 27th of August, a Thursday morning. The wind is finally offshore and clean, and the swell bumps up to 4ft, with the energy reading jumping to a moderate 115. But don’t get too excited. The swell direction is coming from the southeast, which is never good for this place, and the period is a short 6 seconds. So, while it’s technically surfable, it’s going to be fat, slow, and incredibly ordinary. The water should be a bit warmer than usual for this time of year, which is something, I guess. But honestly, it’s not a day to get the hopes up.

And that’s about it. The last couple of days look like they’re going to get washed out by strong onshore winds, so that little window on the 27th is the only thing we have to talk about. It’s a long way off, though, and long-range calls this far out are about as reliable as a weather forecast in a dream. So, keep the board in the car, maybe go for a paddle, but don’t plan any dawn patrols for a while. It’s just one of those stretches.

This is Rusty, signing off. We’ll get waves again, just maybe not this month.

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