Scratby Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Right then, Rusty here. Let’s talk about what’s coming our way for the next couple of weeks, and I’ve gotta warn you – it ain’t pretty. We’re staring down a long, frustrating stretch of flat and choppy water all the way from now till the end of the 16-day window, with nothing worth paddling out for.

We start off on Sunday, July 12th at Scratby, and it’s a mess right out of the gate. Wind is screaming out of the northeast at 19 mph, blowing straight across the face of the waves, making a nasty chop out of the 4ft to 5ft swell. The period is a weak, short 5 to 6 seconds, and the combined energy is only at 83 – barely a pulse. The sky is clear, but the ocean is lumpy and ugly. Total washout.

That same story keeps repeating. Monday the 13th, Tuesday the 14th, all the way through Wednesday the 15th of July. Cross-onshore winds, short 5 to 7 second swell, and scores that are a solid zero. The wave height hangs around 3ft to 4ft, but with that wind on it, there’s no shape, no power, just a bumpy, choppy mess you don’t want to be in.

We hit rock bottom around the 18th and 19th of July. The swell just vanishes – down to 0.7ft to 1ft – and the combined energy drops to single digits. The wind shifts to a cross-shore, but with no swell to push, it’s just flat and choppy. A total waste of a weekend.

There’s a tiny little blip around the 20th and 21st of July. The swell bumps up to about 5ft from the north-northeast on Monday the 20th, with a little more energy behind it (188-232). But don’t get your hopes up. The wind is still cross-onshore from the northeast at 9 to 12 mph, and the period is a weak 6 to 7 seconds. The forecast still calls it “poor surf conditions” and that’s exactly what it is. It’s still a choppy, onshore mess. Not a place you wanna paddle out to this week.

Then the sea goes quiet again from the 22nd all the way through the 27th of July. Swell stays tiny (0.3ft to 3ft), and while we get a few days of light onshore wind, there’s just no energy to make a wave. On the 27th we finally get a short spell of clean conditions with a light cross-offshore breeze from the northwest, but the swell is only 2ft from the south with a period of 4 seconds. The combined energy is a puny 18. You might get a tiny, clean ripple, but it’s hardly worth getting wet for.

So the straight-up truth? There are no standouts here. Not one single day in this 16-day forecast offers good surf. The wind is almost always onshore or cross-onshore, the swell is either too small or too weak, and the entire period is one big gap with no recommendations. For Scratby in July, that’s pretty normal – it can go totally flat for weeks. I wouldn’t bother checking the cameras any time soon. Patterns can shift, but as it stands, it’s a solid blank run. Better luck next time.

Rusty.

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