Ogmore-by-Sea Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, folks, Rusty here. Let’s be straight with you. We’ve got a long, quiet stretch ahead for the Ogmore-by-Sea (river) area. The next 16 days are a bit of a write-off, I’m afraid. There isn’t a single session in the whole window that offers anything worth paddling out for. The finder is showing nothing but “poor surf conditions” from start to finish, so we're looking at a real blank run here.

It starts Sunday, August 9th, with a tiny 0.3ft SW swell and a cross-on W wind at 9 mph. That’s a bit of a mess right out of the gate. The combined swell energy is a limp 3 – barely any juice in the water. The water temp is sitting at 69°, which is about 7° warmer than normal for this time of year – very unusual, feels like a warm bath, but it’s wasted on flat waves.

Monday the 10th isn't any better. A 2ft W swell with a short period of 5 seconds and onshore wind. The energy climbs a bit to 15, but that’s still weak. Tuesday the 11th brings a tiny 0.3ft swell with decent offshore wind from the ESE, but the wave height is just laughable – you’d be floating, not surfing.

There is a bit of a pulse on Thursday the 13th afternoon with a 3ft WSW swell and a period of 10 seconds. The combined swell energy hits 211 – that’s moderate energy for the first time – but the wind is howling onshore from the W at 22 mph. That’s a messy, blown-out combo, not rideable.

After that, it’s a dead zone. Tiny swells, crappy wind, zero recommendations. The longest gap is from about the 14th right through to the 24th. There’s a brief moment on the morning of the 22nd of August with a 0.3ft SW swell and a very long 16-second period, but the energy is only 19 and the wind is a moderate cross-on. That long period would make it straighten out at a beach setup, but seeing as Ogmore is a river break, it might have a chance – except there’s no height to work with.

The last few days, like the 23rd and 24th, are just more of the same. Onshore gales, tiny waves. Honestly, with that kind of swell and strong wind, this setup looks far more interesting for kite surfing than paddle surfing this fortnight.

There’s nothing to get excited about. For Ogmore, this kind of flat, blown-out run is more normal than unusual. Don't fight it – just wait for the next change.

Rusty.

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