Maghermore Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright folks, Rusty here. Let’s have a look at what’s on the table for the next couple of weeks.

Alright, I’m not gonna sugarcoat it – this is a grim stretch for Maghermore. The whole 16-day window is basically a write-off. We’ve got a long, long gap with nothing worth paddling out for. The first few days are a total bust, and it doesn’t really get any better. The swell is tiny, the wind is mostly wrong, and the energy just isn’t there.

Let’s start with this Friday morning, September 4th. We’ve got a meagre 1 ft of south swell, with a period of just 5 seconds. That’s weak, short-period wind swell, with combined energy of only 17. The wind is a fresh 19 mph offshore from the WSW, so conditions will be clean, but there’s just no wave to work with. It’s the same story Friday afternoon – 1 ft, a slightly better 6-second period, but still useless. The water is sitting at 63°F, which feels a touch warmer than normal for this time of year, but that’s about the only bright spot.

The weekend is even worse. Saturday the 5th has almost nothing – 0.3 ft in the morning from the south with a long period of 14 seconds, but that’s just a ghost swell. The afternoon brings a pathetic 2 ft with a 3-second period. The combined energy drops to single digits. Sunday the 6th sees a bump to 4 ft in the morning, but it’s onshore, messy, and the energy is only 51. The afternoon gets up to 4 ft, but the wind is still a fresh 22 mph cross-offshore, and the energy is still only 94. It’s poor surf, plain and simple.

There’s a tiny flicker of hope on Tuesday the 8th with a clean 1.0 ft from the SSW and a fresh offshore wind, but it’s just not enough. The remainder of the first week and into the second week is a wasteland of flat spells and tiny, weak pulses. The wind does go offshore a few times, like on the 10th and 11th, but the swell is always under 2 ft.

The only slightly interesting moment comes on Saturday the 19th. The morning is glassy with a 3 ft north swell, period of 5 seconds, and a combined energy of 34. It’s clean, but it’s a short-period north swell at a spot that prefers south. The afternoon turns cross-shore with a similar 3 ft from the NNE. It’s not great, but it’s the best of a very bad bunch. Still, the forecast is so far out, take it with a grain of salt.

Honestly, there’s nothing here worth getting wet for. The consistency is terrible, the swell is tiny, and the quality is poor across the board. It’s a proper blank run.

Rusty.

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