Ponto Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, let's talk about the surf ahead, and I've got to be straight with you – it's a bit of a lean stretch. We're looking at a 16-day window, and there's a lot of flat, wind-blown junk to wade through before anything decent shows up. I’d say for the first several days, it's not worth the drive.

The run starts off pretty dead. Monday the 31st and Tuesday the 1st are basically a washout – tiny, weak, and cross-onshore. You'd be paddling for nothing. Wednesday the 2nd is the same story, just small, low-energy waves. We're talking combined energies in the 200s and 300s, which is just weak sauce. It's a flat spell, that's for sure.

There's a little hiccup of hope on Thursday the 3rd – a 0.9m swell, but with a long 18-second period, so there's some actual pull to it. The energy bumps up to 594, which is moderate. But the wind is on it, so it's going to be a bumpy one, a bit of a gamble. Friday the 4th has slightly more size, but the onshores keep it messy and uninviting.

Now, here's the standout of the whole period: Sunday the 6th. That's the day to circle. The swell jumps to 1.7m from the south, with a strong 14 to 15 second period, and the energy readings are solidly in the strong range – 1563 in the morning, 1656 in the afternoon. The morning is cross-shore, which is okay, but the afternoon brings in a cross-offshore wind, cleaning it right up. That Sunday afternoon session is your best bet by a long shot. It’s got the size and the power.

Monday the 7th still has a decent 1.6m swell hanging in there, but the quality fades as it starts to drop.

After that, it's all downhill. The rest of the run, from Tuesday the 8th all the way through the 15th, is a long, drawn-out fade. We're back to tiny 0.6m to 0.9m waves and a lot of onshore or cross-onshore wind messing everything up. There might be a slightly cleaner moment on Thursday the 10th in the morning, but it's still only around 0.9m. Don't get too excited.

So, if you've got to go, make it Sunday the 6th in the afternoon. That's the real window. Because after that, we're on a long stretch of nothing. But that's how it goes sometimes. The ocean will sort itself out eventually, but in this run, it's one good day and a whole lot of quiet.

Rusty.

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