Rhosneigr Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, Rusty here. Let’s have a look at what’s coming our way.

To be honest, mate, it’s a pretty grim picture for the next couple of weeks. We’re staring down the barrel of a long, quiet stretch. There’s barely a ripple on offer, and what little shows up is so small and wind-affected it’s hardly worth getting the wetsuit on for. The water’s feeling a bit weird too – sitting at 61°F, which is a good 4°F warmer than normal for this time of year, so that’s something to note if you’re paddling out at Rhosneigr.

We kick off on Thursday, the 2nd of July, but don’t get your hopes up. There’s some small swell around 4 ft from the NW, but it’s a short-period windswell with a weak 6-second pulse. The wind is howling out of the WNW at 16 mph, making it a messy cross-shore chop. Combined energy is only 167, so it’s weak and uninviting. By the afternoon, the swell drops to 2 ft from the SW, and the wind swings onshore. It’s a write-off.

Friday the 3rd is even smaller. We’re down to 1.0 ft in the morning on a 5-second period, wind straight onshore from the SW at 6 mph. You’d be lucky to find anything rideable. The weekend doesn’t offer any relief – Saturday the 4th sees a bit more size, around 4 ft to 4 ft, but it’s all onshore wind at 19 mph, absolutely howling. The combined energy barely hits 68. It’ll be a washing machine out there. Sunday the 5th is more of the same – tiny, weak, and onshore.

Monday the 6th through Wednesday the 8th is a sad saga of knee-high slop with onshore or cross-onshore winds. Wednesday the 8th morning does bring a clean cross-offshore breeze from the NW, but the swell is only 1 ft. It’s glassy, but there’s just no push. You could sit out there on a log and not catch a thing.

Then we hit a real dead zone. From Thursday the 9th all the way through to Monday the 13th of July, there is effectively zero surf. The combined energy is reading 0 most days. It’s flat. You’ll see some clean conditions, even glassy moments on the 10th, but it’s a lake out there. A good week to do some repairs or go for a paddleboard cruise.

There is a tiny flicker of life on Tuesday the 14th of July. A tiny 0.3 ft pulse shows up from the SW, but the period is a whopping 18 seconds. That’s a real long-period groundswell, but it’s so small it won’t do anything on a beach break like Rhosneigr. The wind is light and cross-offshore, so the surface will be clean, but you’d need a microscope to see the waves. Same story for Wednesday the 15th and Thursday the 16th – tiny pulses of long-period energy, but nothing surfable. The best of this weak run might be Thursday the 16th afternoon with 2 ft from the WNW and a light cross-offshore wind, but it’s still poor.

So here’s the bottom line: there are no standouts in this 16-day window. Not one. The forecast is a whole lot of nothing. For an exposed spot like Rhosneigr, a blank run like this isn’t unheard of, but it’s a tough one to swallow. The only positive is that conditions are often clean – so if a proper swell decides to show up last minute, it could be on. But as it stands, leave the board in the van.

Rusty.

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