Menakoz Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright folks, Rusty here. Let's talk about Menakoz for the next 16 days. It’s gonna be a tough stretch for paddle surfing, with the real action staying out of reach for most of us.

This forecast is lean. We're looking at a long, frustrating gap of quiet spells and junk conditions. There’s some promise late in the game, but you’ll need patience and a sharp eye on the forecast.

We kick off on Friday the 21st of August with a solid northwest swell pushing 6 feet, but the wind is a mean cross-onshore 12 mph from the WNW, making a chopped-up mess of a 10-second period swell. The energy is moderate at 680, but the surf quality is poor. This continues through the weekend; Saturday the 22nd shows a drop to 4 feet, and while the morning cleans up with a light cross-offshore breeze from the east, the combined energy is weak at 206. It’s surfable but ordinary. The rest of Saturday and Sunday are a write-off.

Then we hit a real dry spell. From Monday the 24th all the way through to Thursday the 27th of August, the swell collapses. We're talking knee-high slop with periods dipping as low as 4 seconds. The water temp is about average for the time of year, nothing weird there, but there’s simply no energy to work with.

The first real glimmer of light comes on Friday the 28th of August. A new pulse of northwest swell fills in, reaching 7 feet in the morning with a 10-second period. The combined swell energy jumps to a strong 1040, and with a light cross-shore breeze from the WSW at 6 mph, it stays reasonably clean. That said, 8 feet by the afternoon with onshore wind quickly turns it raw and powerful. This is expert territory. It's heavy, powerful, and for experienced surfers only.

After that, the swell backs off quickly. The true standout of this entire two-week window comes on Sunday the 30th of August. For the morning session, the wind goes absolutely glassy – dead calm – with a 4-foot northwest swell of 9 seconds. The energy is moderate at 189, but the conditions will be pristine. The wave quality is still described as "very ordinary", so don't expect perfection, but it will be your cleanest window by a mile. Keep in mind that Menakoz is a reef break that's fairly exposed to the swell, so you'll want to know the lineup. Crowds are common here, especially when it's clean.

Monday the 31st of August offers another glassy morning with 3 feet, but it's smaller. After that, the next two weeks look unremarkable. We finish with a brief uptick on Saturday the 5th of September: a 3-foot northwest swell, clean with a light offshore, but nothing special.

In short: hold out for Friday the 28th if you're an expert, but the real gem is that glassy Sunday morning on the 30th of August. It might be small and ordinary, but with no wind, that's the best you're going to get.

Rusty.

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