Rodiles - Main Beach Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, this is Rusty. Let's talk about what's on the menu for Rodiles – Main Beach.

First up, I gotta be straight with you: the next 16 days are looking pretty grim. We're staring down the barrel of a long, flat spell here. For the first few days, it's basically a write-off. Thursday the 23rd and Friday the 24th, we've got tiny, weak windswell with a period of only 5 to 6 seconds, and the wind is just messing it up. The combined energy is a measly 63 to 118 (weak to moderate), but it's just poor surf. Not worth getting wet.

We finally see a little pulse show up on Sunday the 26th morning. The swell ticks up to 4 ft from the NNW, with a period of 6 seconds. The energy hits 104 (moderate), and we get a clean morning with a light, cross-offshore breeze from the west. It's surfable, but very ordinary. The water temp is about average for the time of year. Nothing to get excited about, but a longboard might get a few grovelly ones.

Monday the 27th looks a bit weird. The swell is 3 ft to 4 ft, but the period stretches to 10 seconds, giving us a combined energy of 378 (moderate). That's a bit of groundswell in the mix. But the wind is cross-onshore from the ENE, so it's going to be bumpy. I'd call it marginal.

After that, it's a long, slow drip of tiny surf. The swell drops back to 2 ft to 2 ft for the rest of the week and into the start of August. The wind is mostly light, but the swell is just too small and weak. There are a few glassy mornings on Saturday the 1st and Sunday the 2nd, but the swell is only 1 ft to 2 ft. It's clean, but there's nothing to ride.

The best you can hope for might be Wednesday the 5th. The morning is glassy, with a 2 ft swell from the NW, but the period jumps to 11 seconds. That's on the longer side, so it might wrap in a bit more cleanly, but it's still tiny. The energy is only 71 (weak). It's a flat, frustrating outlook.

The honest truth is, there's no standout session here. The whole run is a stretch of poor to very ordinary conditions. For a beach break, that little bit of long-period groundswell on the 27th might just break too straight with the small size. It's a tough one to call. If you're a kite surfer, the wind is stronger on Saturday the 25th, but for a paddle surfer, it's a rest week.

Rusty

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