Mawgan Porth Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Right then, let's have a look at what's on the cards. I'm not gonna lie to you, it's a pretty quiet run ahead for Mawgan Porth. This is a river break, so it needs things to line up just right, and for most of this 16-day window, they just don't.

We start off on Saturday the 12th with a bit of a thumping. There's a moderate 4ft swell from the west, but it's short period stuff at 8 seconds and the wind is a messy cross-onshore at 16 mph. The water temp is about average for the time of year, but the combo of weak wave energy (214) and onshore wind makes it a write-off. Sunday the 13th sees a bit more size, 6ft on the face, but it's onshore straight from the west at 12 mph, so it's just a lumpy mess. That moderate energy (574) never gets the chance to clean up.

There's not a single standout period here. From the 12th right through to the 27th, every single session gets a big fat zero from the forecast. That's a solid 16 days of “poor surf conditions” with no relief. The swell direction is always from the west or west-northwest, which is the optimum direction for the spot, but the wind just won't play ball. It's constantly cross-onshore or onshore, often from the southwest or northwest, keeping things choppy and blown out.

The best you could hope for is the morning of Monday the 21st of September. The wind finally goes cross-offshore from the north-northeast at 12 mph, and the conditions turn clean. But the wave heights have dropped right off to a tiny 2ft with a long period of 14 seconds. That long-period groundswell works alright at a river mouth, but the combined energy is weak (224). It’s a knee-high dribbler, not a proper surf. Tuesday the 22nd is even smaller with 1ft and wind energy barely registering at 35. Then from the 23rd to the 27th it stays tiny, under 2ft, with light winds but nothing with any grunt.

Forget about it being too big for beginners; it never gets above 6ft and that’s on the very last day, Sunday the 27th, when it's howling onshore at 19 mph again, making for dangerous, lumpy junk. There’s no point even looking at the kite surfing angle because the wind is consistently too light or cross-onshore for that too.

Sometimes you get a run of dud forecasts, and this is one of them. The whole 16-day window is a flat spell. A blank run like this is more normal for a river break that needs a lot of help. The swell energy never cracks into triple digits in a meaningful way until the 13th, and even then the wind ruins it. Keep the board waxed, but don't hold your breath. Forecasts can change, but this one looks pretty locked in.

Rusty

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