Merewether - Ladies Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright mate, Rusty here. Let's have a look at what's on the card for the next couple of weeks.

First up, the water temp at Merewether - Ladies is sitting at 63°F, which is a bit colder than normal for this time of year. Not a massive shock, but you'll want a decent spring suit.

The outlook is a real slow burn. For the first few days, from Saturday the 15th through to Tuesday the 18th, it's pretty grim. Onshore winds, small windswell, and generally poor surf conditions mean you're better off doing something else. Nothing really worth paddling out for.

We finally get a small window of hope on Wednesday the 19th. The morning is looking magic with a glassy, offshore breeze from the NW and light winds. The swell is a modest 4 ft from the SE with a period of 7 seconds, and the combined energy is weak at 214. It's not going to be world-class, but that glassy surface will make it rideable and clean. It's a reef break that's exposed to the ESE, so it's not the best direction, but it's the best we've got. This is your standout and genuinely the only good surf window in the near term.

Thursday the 20th and Friday the 21st are ordinary at best. The wind turns cross-offshore on Thursday morning and fully offshore on Friday, keeping the surface clean, but the swell is tiny – 3 ft on Friday with energy dropping to 65. It's surfable if you're desperate, but don't expect much.

Then we hit a real dead zone. From Saturday the 22nd through to Thursday the 27th, the wave heights are all under 3 ft, and the wind is mostly cross-shore or onshore. A few glassy moments on Sunday the 23rd morning and Tuesday the 25th morning, but the swell is just too small to get excited about. There's a long gap of almost a week with no real recommendations.

Things get interesting again from Friday the 28th, but it's for the wrong reasons. By Friday afternoon, the swell jumps to 5 ft from the S with a period of 10 seconds and moderate energy (467), but it's cross-onshore and choppy. Then Saturday the 29th morning sees a massive 16 ft swell from the S with a 13-second period and an enormous energy reading of 14754. That's a big, powerful groundswell. The period is long, which means it'll have plenty of punch, but it's blowing onshore from the SSE at 16 mph. That's a lot of water moving around with a messy top. This is strictly for experts only, and even then, the wind is going to make it a battle. The afternoon drops to 13 ft with a 13-second period and energy of 5309, still cross-onshore but marginally better. Sunday the 30th is still pumping at 12 ft in the morning and 8 ft in the afternoon, both from the SSE, but the onshore wind keeps it rough. These are big, raw, dangerous conditions, not clean, not fun.

So the bottom line: the only real standout is Wednesday the 19th morning for a glassy but small session. Everything else is either flat, blown out, or way too big and messy. The big swell at the end is for the brave and the stupid, but it's not the clean, groomed kind of big.

Rusty.

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