Oxwich Point Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, this is Rusty again, and I'm looking at the same picture but in feet and Fahrenheit.

Alright, the next two weeks at Oxwich Point are a total dud. There's no worthwhile surf anywhere in this 16-day window. The first week is completely flat, and the second week just drags on the same way. From the 7th right through to the 14th, you've got a week-long gap of nothing with any punch. The wave energy figures are all low, mostly in the 20s and 30s. It's a real bummer for anyone who wants to get wet.

The one standout is the water temperature. On Tuesday the 7th, it's 67° – that's nearly 8° warmer than what's expected for this time of year. That's very unusual, almost weirdly warm for the Gower. You'd be comfortable in a shorty, or even boardies, but you'd be sitting there on flat water.

All the swell we see is tiny. It's coming from the WSW to W, with heights all under 2 feet. A few mornings, like Thursday the 9th and Saturday the 11th, will be glassy, but with only 1 feet to 1 foot of swell, it's barely a bump. The period on that 1-foot swell on Saturday the 11th afternoon is 8 seconds, so it's weak wind slop with no grunt. Even a 16-second period groundswell that shows up on Sunday the 12th is only 0.3 feet, so it's a ghost swell – you can't ride nothing.

The wind does have some clean moments – those glassy spells and a few cross-off breezes – but with no size to work with, it's just a pretty, flat ocean. Later in the second week, around the 19th and 20th, you'll get glassy mornings again, but it's still just 1-foot dribble. The highest combined energy is 58 on the 14th, which is still weak, and that morning is ruined by a nasty 25 mph cross-onshore wind from the E, making it lumpy and messy with barely a ripple.

To call it straight, don't plan a surf trip for Oxwich Point right now. The best of a bad bunch is Thursday morning the 9th of July. Glassy surface on 1 feet of 10-second swell from the W, in a sheltered spot, with energy of 29. But that's a flat day with a nice reflection on the water. For actually riding a wave, even a longboard would be pushing it.

This is just how it goes here sometimes. These blank runs are pretty normal for the area in summer. It'll turn around, but don't hold your breath for the next week and a half.

Rusty.

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