Spanish House Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, Rusty here. Let’s have a look at what we’ve got coming down the pike for Spanish House.

Right off the bat, I’ve got to be straight with you – this stretch is looking flat and pretty grim. The whole 16-day window is one long gap. There’s no real surf to get excited about at all. We’re talking tiny dribbles. The combined swell energy barely cracks double digits most days, staying well under 100 – it’s weak, weak, weak (values like 41 to 68). The water temp is sitting at a tropical 84°F, which is right on the money average for the time of year, but it’s wasted on this lack of waves.

Spanish House is an inconsistent sandbar that only really works with a clean NNE swell. We’re not getting that. We’re getting small E and ESE windswell, barely 1ft to 2ft, with a short, un-energetic period of 8 seconds. The winds are almost always onshore or cross-onshore, chopping up what little bump there is. The only time we see a shot at clean conditions is on the 12th and 13th of July mornings, with light cross-offshore winds from the SW, but the swell is still a pathetic 1ft. On the 18th of July morning, there’s a dead-calm glassy morning, but the swell collapses to a tiny 2ft with a 4-second period from the S – that’s just crumble, not a wave.

Later in the run, around the 19th to the 22nd of July, the wind finally turns cross-offshore or offshore, cleaning it up. But we’re still only looking at 1ft to 2ft of swell with barely any period. The afternoon of the 22nd has offshore wind, but the swell is a microscopic 1ft. It’s just not enough to push a surfboard.

There is no standout. There’s nothing even close to being a good option. This is a period to leave the board in the car and maybe do something else. It’s one of those runs where the forecast being poor is pretty normal for this area when the swell direction isn’t right.

Rusty.

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