Tengan Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, Rusty here again. Let's talk about what's coming up for Tengan.

First up, the water is sitting at 86°, which is a touch warmer than what we’d usually expect for this time of year. Not a massive shift, but noticeable.

Honestly, the next couple of weeks look pretty grim for getting a decent wave at Tengan. The only real flicker of something happening comes early on Monday morning, August 3rd. We’ve got a small 3 ft swell from the east, with a super long 15-second period. The combined energy is weak, sitting at 369. It’s a groundswell, which means clean lines, but it's small and the wind is a light cross-shore. It’s surfable, but it’s marginal. The afternoon holds the same size with a slightly longer period, but the wind is still cross. It’s not great.

Things take a turn for the worse from Tuesday, August 4th onwards. The swell picks up, but the wind swings cross-onshore and gets messy. By Wednesday, August 5th, the swell is up to 6 ft from the east, but the wind is a choppy cross-onshore, so it’s a bumpy mess. The energy is building (2014), but it’s not clean surf.

The real excitement, and the only standout in this entire run, is a massive spike on Friday, August 7th. The swell gets absolutely hammered by a storm, rising to 26 ft from the NNW. The wind is a clean cross-offshore but it’s a storm force 56 mph blow. The combined energy is a massive 24983. The period is a shorter 12 seconds, so it’s a windswell. This is a big, dangerous, and powerful wave. The forecast even says it’s too big for this break. This is expert-only territory, and even then, it’s a dicey prospect. The afternoon gets even crazier with 38 ft swell and hurricane-force winds. This is less a surf session and more a survival exercise.

After that peak, the swell drops off a cliff. Saturday morning, August 8th, sees a tiny 2 ft swell from the NNE with clean offshore winds, but the energy is only 180. It’s a tiny clean wave, nothing to get excited about.

From Saturday afternoon all the way through to the end of the forecast on August 18th, it’s a dead zone. Cross-shore winds, onshore winds, hurricane-force southerlies, and flat spells with zero swell energy. There are a few days with a tiny 1 ft or 2 ft swell, but with poor wind and conditions, it’s not worth a paddle. The surf is just not on.

So, in short: the only real event is the massive, dangerous, and unsurfable swell on Friday, August 7th. Everything else is flat or blown out. It’s a blank run for Tengan.

Rusty.

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