Road K Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, this is Rusty comin' at ya with a look at Road K. Gotta be straight with you – the next couple of weeks are lookin' pretty bleak. There's a real long stretch of nothin' to get excited about, so don't go clearin' your schedule just yet.

We start off Sunday the 23rd of August, and honestly, it's a write-off. There's a tiny bit of swell, barely 1ft from the SE, but it's onshore and we've got risk of thunderstorms. The energy is weak and the surf is poor. This continues on through the whole week. We get a little bump in size around Monday the 24th with 3ft swell, but it's short-period windswell and the wind is all wrong – cross to cross-onshore. The conditions are just too choppy and messy to even think about paddling out.

Tuesday the 25th sees the swell drop back down, and the wind stays messy. By Wednesday the 26th morning, things get a little cleaner with a light cross-offshore breeze and the swell around 2ft, but it's still weak. We get a score of 1/10 for "surfable waves but very ordinary conditions," which is about the best compliment I can give it. That's a sign of how bad it is.

The pattern of weak, onshore, and generally poor surf drags on. Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday... it's all the same story. Small, weak swell, and the wind is either onshore or cross-onshore. There's a moment on Sunday the 30th afternoon with a clean cross-offshore breeze, but the swell is still tiny around 2ft. Not worth the effort.

The first real glimmer of anything happens on Monday the 31st of August. Morning brings a clean offshore breeze from the NNW and a small 1ft SE swell, but here's the interesting part: the period jumps to 17 seconds. That's a very long period groundswell. The energy is still low, but that long period means there's some deep-water energy in the water. At a sandbar, a long period swell like this is likely to be straight and close out fast, but if it links up with the right bank, you might get a sneaky ride. It's still only rated as "surfable but very ordinary," so keep expectations in the gutter.

After that, we're back to small and ordinary. Tuesday the 1st of September is still poor, but Wednesday the 2nd afternoon has a moment: glassy conditions with a light ESE breeze, and the swell is around 3ft from the SE with a period of 11 seconds. The energy is moderate. That glassy surface is a major positive. It's the cleanest the wave face will be in this whole outlook, but the swell is still small and the quality is described as "surfable but very ordinary."

By Thursday the 3rd and Friday the 4th, the wind turns clean offshore from the NW and NNW. The swell on Friday morning is around 4ft from the east with a short period, so it's windswell, but with that offshore breeze it could be rideable. It's not gonna be classic, but for Road K, a clean offshore day is something.

The final days of the forecast, around the 6th and 7th of September, see the swell picking up to 4ft with energy climbing – that's moderate to strong energy. The period improves to 10 seconds on the 6th, which is a better groundswell. The wind on the morning of Sunday the 6th is a clean cross-offshore from the NNE. The combination of chest-high swell, clean wind, and decent period makes this the best looking window in the entire 16 days. It's a long way out, so treat it as promising but not locked in.

To be honest, if you're desperate, the cleanest windows are Wednesday 2nd afternoon (glassy but tiny), Friday 4th (small but clean offshore), and the most hope is pinned on Sunday 6th morning with some size and clean wind. For the rest of it, there's a solid week or more of just poor, onshore, choppy slop.

This is Rusty, signing off.

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