Tengan Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, mates, Rusty here. Let's break down what's on offer for Tengan over the next couple of weeks. It's a real mixed bag, so listen up.

First thing, the water temp's around 84° – pretty standard for this time of year, nothing to write home about.

The forecast starts off real ugly. Wednesday the 26th and Thursday the 27th are completely blown out with strong, messy winds and tiny, weak waves. Friday and Saturday are no better – onshore junk. You'd be a fool to paddle out for the first few days. Don't even bother.

Things start to change as we move into the first week of September. Monday the 1st and Tuesday the 2nd see some serious energy pop up, with combined swell energy hitting the thousands (715 to 5959). We're talking solid 8ft to 18ft swell, mostly from the east and north-northwest, with clean cross-offshore winds. Tengan is a reef break, which usually likes a longer period, and this stuff has got some decent push (12-14 seconds). The quality is still a bit iffy, but for the big-wave hunters, it's getting interesting.

Here's the big one. Thursday the 3rd of September. Glassy morning, dead calm wind, and a solid 16ft northwest swell with a 12-second period. The combined energy is massive at 7695. This is powerful, long-period groundswell hitting a reef. For experts only – at 16ft, this is going to be a test of nerve and skill. It'll be clean and powerful, and you might not have hordes of people, but it's a reef, so the crowd will be there for the good ones. This is the session to circle.

After that, it drops off a cliff. Friday the 4th and the weekend of the 5th and 6th look poor again with onshore winds and weak, choppy surf.

Another window opens on Monday the 7th of September. We get glassy conditions again in the morning with a solid 10ft northwest swell. The wind stays clean and cross-offshore into the afternoon. The energy is strong (1344), but the period is a bit shorter at 8 seconds. It'll still be excellent for experienced surfers, but the shorter period might make it a bit fat on the reef.

The second week into September looks pretty average – a lot of onshore and cross-shore winds with moderate to strong swell, but the quality is gone. It's going to be choppy and messy from the 8th onwards, so it's not looking good.

In short: a long drought to start, then a massive, expert-only day on September 3rd, a decent but shorter-period option on the 7th, and then back to mediocrity.

Rusty

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