Rhos-On-Sea Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright folks, it’s Rusty here. Let’s be straight with you—it’s been a flat, frustrating stretch for us. We’ve got a pretty grim 16-day window ahead, with nothing that’s gonna get the heart pumping. For the first few days, we’re looking at small, weak, short-period slop, and after that, it just dies off completely. A long stretch of nothing.

Wednesday morning kicks things off with the biggest, and quite frankly, the only real wave of the opening days. We’re talking 4.9ft of windswell out of the NW with a weak 6 second period. The energy reading is a feeble 159, and the northwest wind is chopping it all up. It might be surfable for the desperate, but it’s going to be a messy, bumpy battle. A cross-shore breeze isn't doing us any favors, and the water is notably warm at 64°, a good 4.5° above the norm for this time of year. The wave quality is just poor.

That’s pretty much the only pulse of any size. The rest of the forecast just flat-lines. We’ll see a tiny 2.9ft wave Wednesday afternoon, but the energy is completely gone at 42. After that, the ocean just turns off for days on end. Thursday through Tuesday is a complete blank for surf, just minimal bumps here and there that won’t break properly. The wind is light on Thursday morning with a glassy, clean look to the ocean, but there are no waves to clean up. Just a dead calm.

We get another tease of life on Tuesday, September 16th, with a pathetic 2.3ft NW windswell at 4 seconds and an energy of just 16. It’s more of a ripple than a wave. The spell of total flatness then sets in again for over a week. From the afternoon of the 16th all the way to the start of the 23rd, it's a desert. Nothing. Zero. The models occasionally show a clean offshore wind, but there’s simply no swell for it to work on.

Finally, on Wednesday the 23rd, we see a ghost of a wave—a 0.9ft easterly bump with a 3 second period, and an energy of just 1. That’s less a wave and more a change in the water’s surface. Honestly, at this point you’re better off fixing your fins or going for a paddle in a lake.

It’s a rough outlook, no doubt. The ocean’s just taken a full holiday. There’s nothing here for beginners, and nothing for the experts either. Forecasts can change, but as it stands, this looks like a blank run for the area. Keep the wax dry, and I’ll keep an eye on things.

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