Ristorante or La Toscana Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Right then, let’s have a look at what’s on offer for the next couple of weeks. To be straight with you, it’s a flat spell. We’ve got a long stretch ahead with barely a ripple, so don’t get your hopes up too high just yet.

The action starts on Friday the 10th of July at Ristorante (or La Toscana), but it’s not exactly going to get the blood pumping. We’re talking a tiny 0.3 ft swell from the west, with a short, weak period of 5 seconds. The combined energy is basically nothing at just 1. The morning has a light east breeze that’s cross-offshore, keeping the surface clean, but there’s just no power in the water. It’s poor.

Saturday the 11th sees a tiny bump, with the swell nudging up to 1 ft from the south-southwest by the morning and then 2 ft from the south in the afternoon. The period remains a very short 4 seconds, and the wave energy is still weak (4 and 9). The wind is light on Saturday morning but turns cross-onshore in the afternoon, making it choppy. Not worth rushing for.

Sunday the 12th offers the best of a bad lot this week. The morning brings a 2 ft swell from the south, with a slightly better 6-second period, giving us a weak combined energy of 35. The wind is light from the east, blowing cross-offshore, so it will be clean. The afternoon sees the wind swing onshore from the west-southwest, which will spoil it quickly. So if you’re desperate for a paddle, Sunday morning is your window, but be warned, that’s a tiny, weak wave.

Monday the 13th has a glassy morning with no wind and a 2 ft south swell – clean but gutless (energy 18). The afternoon gets blown out by a moderate westerly breeze.

From Tuesday the 14th right through to Saturday the 25th of July, it’s a long, drawn-out gap of flatness. There are occasional tiny pulses of 0.7 ft or 1 ft showing up, like on Tuesday the 21st when a 3 ft swell from the west-southwest appears with the highest energy of the whole period at 96. But that’s coming in with a strong onshore south-southwest wind at 12 mph, making it a choppy, blown-out mess. That setup looks more interesting for kite surfing than paddle surfing, to be honest.

Because there are so few options, the very best of this dismal run is likely the glassy morning of Saturday the 25th of July. We’ve got a tiny 0.7 ft from the west-northwest, glassy calm winds, and a completely clean surface. But again, there’s no power there.

To be honest, there are no standouts. It’s a flat patch, and a blank run like this is normal for this area every now and then. Don’t store the boards just yet, this kind of thing tends not to stay poor for long. Keep an eye on it.

Rusty.

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