Tercera Ponte Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Right, gather 'round me. Rusty here, and I'm looking at what's coming down the pipe for Tercera Ponte. It's a bit of a mixed bag, but I'll tell you straight – there's a reason to stay hopeful.

Overall, we're looking at a slow start with a lot of wind-chop and onshore junk for the next few days. It's going to feel like a long wait, but towards the end of the first week and into the second, there are some proper windows of clean surf that are worth circling on the calendar. The water temp here is sitting at about 79°, which is pretty normal for this time of year, so no need for a thick wetsuit.

From Saturday the 8th through Wednesday the 13th, it's mostly a write-off. We've got small, weak swell from the east and southeast, with energy readings in the low hundreds (123–150), but the wind is just a mess. It's cross, cross-on, or straight onshore, making for choppy, poor conditions. You'd be fighting a losing battle out there.

Then things take a turn. Thursday the 14th is our first real standout. The morning brings a clean window with a light offshore northerly breeze. The swell is small, only about 2ft, but it's coming from the SSE with a long period of 12 seconds – that's a proper groundswell. The combined energy jumps up to a solid 283, and with that offshore wind, the waves will have some shape. This is a good one for beginners because the size is small, but it'll be clean and fun. The afternoon gets messy again, so make the most of the early session.

Friday the 15th offers another morning window that's very similar. Another 2ft to 3ft of SSE groundswell (13-second period) and a light cross-offshore breeze from the north. Clean, rippable little waves. The energy is still decent at 305. Again, the afternoon spoils it with a cross-onshore, but the mornings are where it's at.

After that, we slide back into a few days of onshore slop through the 16th, 17th, and 18th, even though the energy levels are high (over 400 and 500). That's just a big, messy ocean with onshore winds – not much fun for a paddle board, but you could have a blast on a kite if that's your thing.

Looking further out, the second week has a promising window on Thursday the 20th. The morning brings a light cross-offshore breeze from the ENE and a 4ft swell from the SE with a 9-second period. The energy is 240, and the conditions are forecast to be clean. This is another one to keep an eye on, though being that far out, we'll have to wait and see how it firms up.

The standout of the whole run, though, is the morning of Friday the 15th. That long-period groundswell with the light offshore wind is going to produce the cleanest, most enjoyable waves of the entire forecast. It won't be big, but it'll be beautiful.

Rusty

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