Suicides Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Oi, Rusty here. Gotta be straight with you – lookin' at the 16-day window for Suicides, it's a tough stretch. The overall pattern is dominated by persistent onshore and cross-onshore winds from the north and north-northeast. That means choppy, lumpy, and generally poor conditions are the story, day after day. There's a real gap of no good surf right from the start, with the first few days offering nothing but cross-onshore chop and weak energy.

The water's sitting at 74°F – that's about 2°F warmer than usual for this time of year, so it's a touch on the balmy side, but nothing crazy.

We kick off on Friday, August 14th, with a 4ft north swell, but it's a short-period 7-second windswell with a cross-onshore NNE breeze at 16 mph. The combined energy is weak at 219, and the wave comment says it all: "poor surf conditions." It's a no-go. This same pattern of cross-onshore, choppy, and poor conditions holds through the weekend and into the next week. Saturday (August 15th) and Sunday (August 16th) are the same story – small, short-period swell with rubbish wind.

Monday, August 17th, offers a slight shift in the afternoon with the wind turning onshore from the NW, but it's still a weak 3ft north swell (172 energy). The conditions are still rated poor. We see a bit of a spike in the swell size from the 22nd of August onwards, with heights reaching 5ft to 6ft, and the combined energy jumps into the moderate range (values like 323, 496, 420). But the wind is still a problem – fresh cross-onshore breezes from the NNE at 19-22 mph, making it lumpy and messy. The period stays short, between 6 and 8 seconds, so it's just windswell junk.

The best of a bad lot might be the afternoon of Monday, August 17th, and a few windows from August 26th onwards, when the wind goes onshore from the NW or NNW. Still, the swell is averaging 5ft to 6ft from the north with a short period, and the wave comments are all "poor surf conditions." There's no standout. The closer we get to the end of the window, on August 29th, the swell direction swings to the WNW and NW with a much longer period of 12-14 seconds, which is a proper groundswell. But the wind is still a fresh onshore or cross-onshore, and the swell height drops to just 2ft. The energy is still moderate (305 and 241), but it's too small and blown out to be worth a paddle.

Honestly, with the constant onshore northerly winds and short-period chop, the setup at Suicides looks more interesting for kite surfing than paddle surfing for most of this period. The only real standouts? There aren't any. This is a blank run for the area. It tends not to stay poor for long, but right now, you're better off finding something else to do for a couple of weeks.

Rusty.

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