Rodiles - Main Beach Surf Forecast and Surf Report

G'day, Rusty here. I gotta be straight with you: the next couple of weeks look pretty hopeless for Rodiles – Main Beach. We're looking at a long flat spell with heaps of chop and small junk. There ain’t one day that stands out, but there's a couple of moments you might get wet if you're not picky.

Right now, Monday morning the 27th is your best early chance, and it's not exactly pumping. We've got a 5ft swell from the NNW with a period of 9 seconds – that's short-period windswell, so it’s gonna be messy. There's a light ENE wind at 6 mph, which is cross-onshore and gonna put some chop on it. The combined wave energy sits at moderate (387). Water temp is about average for this time of year so no surprises there. The rest of Monday just falls apart as the wind picks up.

After Monday, it’s a long, tough run. From Tuesday the 28th through the end of the first week, we’ve got tiny waves, a whole lot of cross-shore and onshore wind, and energy readings that are weak (mostly under 100). Swell drops to under 2ft and stays that way for days. There's a little window Thursday morning the 30th with glassy conditions and a tiny 2ft NW swell, but honestly, you'd be scratching for anything.

The weekend of August 1st and 2nd sees a slight bump in energy (112 and 149) but wave heights hover around 2ft to 4ft and the period is embarrassingly short (6-8 seconds). Wind stays onshore or cross-onshore, keeping everything chopped up. Not worth the paddle.

Tuesday the 4th of August offers another glassy dawn patrol with 2ft of NW swell and a 10-second period, but it's just too small to get excited about. The energy is still weak (67). You could call it a surf if you're being generous, but it's not what we came for.

The only real hope comes way out, on Sunday the 9th of August. The morning shows a 4ft NW swell with an 8-second period, moderate energy (170), and a light cross-offshore breeze from the WNW at 6 mph that'll keep the surface clean. That’s the pick of the whole forecast, and it's not saying much. The afternoon gets a bit bigger at 4ft but the wind swings NW at 9 mph and turns cross-shore, messing it up.

After that, the last day we've got data for, Tuesday the 11th of August, is another tiny glassy morning with 3ft from the N and a 6-second period, but it's surfable in a very ordinary way.

So the bottom line: you've got a poor run of surf here. The best bet is Sunday morning the 9th of August with a clean 4ft NW swell and light offshore winds. But even that is modest. Everything else is a long shot. Stay patient, forecasts can always turn around.

Rusty.

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