TCs Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, Rusty here. Let’s have a look at the charts for TCs.

Right off the bat, I gotta be straight with you – this is a tough stretch. The whole 16-day window is basically a write-off for anything good. There’s no proper recommendation, no real standouts. We’ve got a long, dry gap of nothing but poor conditions stretching from the start all the way through to the end of the second week. It’s pretty grim.

The core problem is that we’ve got consistent, moderate cross-onshore winds from the west and southwest piling into the lineup at TCs. The swell direction is locked in from the SSW, which is the optimum, but it doesn’t matter when the wind is chopping everything up. Even when the swell height bumps up a little, the conditions just aren’t cooperating.

Take the morning of Thursday the 3rd of September. The swell is a clean 3 ft from the SSW with a 14-second period, and the combined swell energy is moderate at 473. That’s onshore wind from the SW though, so it’s messy, and the score is marginal at best. Same goes for the morning of Tuesday the 8th of September, where the swell jumps to 5 ft from the south with a period of 13 seconds, and the energy climbs to a strong 753. But again, that cross-onshore wind from the SW just wrecks it. That size is getting into expert territory at 5 ft but the quality is poor.

The water temperature is running a staggering 74°, which is 8° warmer than usual for this time of year – that’s very unusual. It’s like a bath out there, but the surf just isn’t there to enjoy it.

For an advanced reef break like TCs that’s fairly consistent and sheltered, seeing a full 16 days with no proper surf is frustrating but it happens. The setup looks more interesting for kite surfing than paddle surfing with all this cross-onshore chop.

Keep an eye on the charts, it tends not to stay this poor for long, but for now, save the wax.

Rusty.

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