Supertubos Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright folks, Rusty here. Let's have a look at what's on the cards for this stretch. I gotta be straight with you – it's a pretty quiet run ahead. We're looking at a long gap of nearly two weeks with hardly anything doing.

The setup is pretty flat for days on end. The only real pulse of energy we see is around Wednesday the 29th of July with a bit of a lift, but even then it's nothing to write home about. The water is sitting at a touch warmer than normal for this time of year, around 70°, so the temps are nice but the swell just isn't showing up.

Supertubos is our only option on the table. It's a beach and reef setup that's fairly consistent, but for most of this forecast it's just not happening. Swell is tiny – we're talking 0.7 ft to 1 ft for the first week, with a few mornings seeing the lump get up to maybe 3 ft on Wednesday the 29th. That morning, the combined swell energy is still only moderate at 130, and the wind is a light northerly, which is cross-offshore, so it would be clean. But honestly, the waves are poor. The period is short at 9 seconds, so there's no real grunt to them. It's not worth paddling out for.

We skip through the end of July and into August with the same story: tiny 1 ft to 2 ft swells and a moderate northerly breeze. The swell direction is consistently from the WNW, which is the optimum direction for the spot, but the size just isn't there. By the time we get to Monday the 3rd of August, we see a bit of a bump again – 3 ft in the morning with combined energy at 82, but that's still weak, and the period drops to 8 seconds. The surf is very ordinary.

After that, it's even worse. From the 5th of August onward, the northerly winds start to howl – 19 to 25 mph – and the swell gets crushed. We see a few tiny 1 ft waves, but by the 8th and 9th of August there is literally no swell registered. Flat as a tack. The last few days of the outlook do show a tiny 0.3 ft to 0.7 ft pulse around the 10th of August, but with a period of 11 seconds it's not going to produce anything rideable.

So there you have it. There's no standout in this sixteen-day window. If you're desperate for a paddle on a longboard on the cleanest of the little days, maybe the morning of Wednesday the 29th of July is your best bet, but it's a long shot. With this kind of extended flat spell, the forecasts can change, but right now it's a waiting game.

Rusty.

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