10th Street (Avalon) Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, Rusty here, lookin' at the charts for the next couple of weeks. Gotta be straight with you, it's a pretty grim stretch for the most part. We've got a whole lot of nothing, then a tease of something, followed by a whole lot of nothing again. Let's get into it.

The outlook kicks off with eleven days of flat, weak, or just plain messy conditions starting Thursday, July 30. The first recommendation doesn't show up until Saturday, August 08. That's a solid gap of over a week with nothing worth paddling out for. The wind is mostly cross or cross-onshore, and the swell is tiny, if it's there at all. It's gonna be a tough wait.

Then, on Saturday, August 08, we finally get a pulse of energy. The morning looks like the only real window. There's a south-east groundswell pushing in at 4 ft with a period of 11 seconds, hitting the beach with a moderate combined energy of 321. It's not a monster, but after all that flatness, it's something. The wind is a light, cross-offshore breeze from the WSW, which should keep things reasonably clean. The spot is 10th Street (Avalon), a beach and jetty setup that's exposed to the swell. Now, this break is listed as *inconsistent*, so don't expect a conveyor belt of waves. You'll have to be patient for the sets. But with that swell direction coming from the SE, which is the optimum for this break, the shape could be alright. The water temp is about average for this time of year.

That Saturday afternoon, the wind swings onshore and the combined energy jumps up to 345, but the forecast gets a bit iffy with a risk of thunderstorms, so it's a morning mission if you're gonna go.

After that Sunday, August 09, it pretty much dries up again. The swell drops back to nothing, and the wind turns poor. There's a pulse of bigger swell using the SE direction later in the second week, like on Tuesday, August 11 and Wednesday, August 12, with heights over 5 ft. But the onshore wind is howling at 15 mph, making it a choppy, blown-out mess. That kind of energy with those conditions would be more interesting for the kite surfers than for us paddle guys. The period gets up to 12 seconds, but with the cross-onshore wind, it's just messy.

So, the only real stand-out in this whole 16-day window is Saturday morning, August 08 at 10th Street. It's a short window, the break is inconsistent, but it's the only clean shot we've got. The rest of the forecast is a write-off.

Rusty, out.

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