Rebounds Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, let’s get into it. It’s a bit flat out there at Rebounds, but the next couple weeks have some promise. Water is sitting at about 52°F, which is pretty much where it should be for this time of year.

We’ll have a slow start, with a few days of junky, tiny surf before anything even remotely rideable shows up. Friday the 21st is small, like 2ft, with a long 18-second period, but the conditions are questionable. Not worth getting wet for.

Then things get heavy, and not in a good way. Saturday the 22nd, a big SW swell hits, with wave heights pushing 12ft and a strong energy reading of 8940. The wind is going to be howling cross-shore, making it a complete mess. This is way too big for the reef and just a dangerous, churning pile of whitewater. For sure a kite day, not a paddle day.

Things back off a bit after that. Sunday the 23rd is a clean but average 5ft, and then Monday the 24th is where it starts to click. The morning is okay, but the afternoon is the pick. The wind drops to glassy, and we have a 4ft SSW groundswell with a 14-second period. That’s a beautiful combo for this reef, clean and punchy. That’s your first solid session.

There’s a mid-week lull, and then Friday the 28th shows a 6ft S swell, but the period is only 8 seconds. It’ll be clean with offshore wind, but that short period will probably make it a bit racy and less organized.

But the real standout is the final day of the month. Monday morning, August 31st, we’ve got light offshores and a 4ft south groundswell with a 15-second period. The model is showing very good, clean surf. It’s a long way out, so don’t bank on it, but it has the potential to be the best day of the forecast window.

After that, it fades out into small, onshore slop for the start of September.

So, your two best windows are Monday afternoon the 24th for some clean, fun waves, and that more promising, but less certain, morning on the 31st. The rest is either flat, messy, or just too damn big.

Rusty out.

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