North Bar Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Righto, let’s check out what’s cooking at North Bar for the next couple of weeks.

Honestly, it’s a quiet stretch ahead. The water temp is sitting around 70°, which is about average for this time of year – nothing to write home about.

The first chance you’ll find anything to ride is Wednesday morning, August 5th. We’re looking at a small 2ft S swell, with a short period of 7 seconds. The combined energy is weak at 86, so it’s not packing much punch. The wind is light and offshore from the SSW, so it’ll be clean. It’s surfable, but very ordinary.

Then we hit a long dry patch. From Wednesday afternoon all the way through to the middle of the week after, the swells are tiny – mostly under 2ft, with energy figures in the single digits and low teens. The wind is often offshore, so the water will be clean, but there’s just no push. The swell direction hangs around from the SE to S. This quiet spell runs right through until around August 12th.

There’s a little flicker of life on the morning of Saturday, August 15th. The swell builds to 3ft from the S, still a short 6-second period, with combined energy at 87 – still weak. But the real highlight is the wind: glassy, from the NNE at just 3 mph. That’s a rare treat for North Bar. It’ll be clean, but the waves are still ordinary. In the afternoon, the swell pushes to 4ft from the ENE, with energy climbing to 162 (moderate). The wind is offshore from the SSW at 12 mph, so it’ll be clean and have a bit more oomph, but with a period of only 5 seconds, it’s going to be sloppy and lack real shape.

For a beach and reef setup like North Bar, that short period, weak energy stuff isn’t going to give you much. The best bet across the whole 16 days is that glassy Saturday morning, August 15th – it’s the only moment where conditions line up, even if the waves are small and nothing special. Everything else is too small, too weak, or just not worth the paddle.

Rusty.

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