Moss Landing Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright folks, Rusty here. Let's cut to the chase. The next week and a half at Moss Landing? It's a total ghost town. We are looking at a whole lot of nothing. Small, weak, onshore mush. You’d be wasting your time.

Right now, we're talking ankle-biters, maybe waist-high at best. Swell heights are mostly hovering between 1 to 4 feet. The period is short, no push behind it. The wind is a constant cross-shore from the west and southwest, just chopping everything up. You see those energy numbers? Most of the time they're under 100, which tells you just how weak it all is. There’s no power. Water temp is normal, nothing to write home about.

That whole first week from the 15th to the 22nd is a washout. A few pulses of swell, but nothing with any real size or shape to it. It's that classic summer windswell that just messes up the surface without any of the juice.

Moving into the following week, from the 24th, we start seeing some more size, swell heights around 4-5 feet, but it's still all cross-onshore. Still not worth getting too excited about. It’s more of the same, just slightly bigger.

Now, here’s the one and only light at the end of the tunnel. That final Saturday, the 29th of August. That's the day. We’ve got a proper swell hitting, around 6 to 8 feet (Moss Landing) from the WNW. The energy readings for that day are in the high 700s to over 800, that’s a lot of power. It’s still a cross-onshore wind, but it’s light, so it might not completely trash it. This is the one to keep an eye on. But, it's twelve days away, so don't book your time off work just yet. Swells this size with a period of 9-10 seconds are not for beginners, that’s for sure.

The day before, the 28th, will have some size too, around 6 feet, but it's still looking marginal.

Honestly, for most of this forecast, the conditions look a lot better for kite surfing than trying to paddle out and catch a wave. You'd be fighting the wind the whole time.

My advice? Don't get your hopes up for the next two weeks. The first week is a total write-off. The second week has some size, but the winds are the big question mark. Just sit tight and hope that last Saturday delivers.

Rusty.

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