The Pass Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Right, listen up. Rusty here. We’ve got a solid run of surf ahead, but it's gonna take a bit of patience to get to the good stuff. The swell is filling in, but we're dealing with a lot of average, ordinary conditions before things really clean up.

The first few days are pretty uninspiring. We're looking at small, weak surf with a lot of cross-onshore and bumpy conditions. Not worth getting too excited about, just a lot of whitecaps and small waves. This goes on for a stretch, so if you're checking the surf, you might wanna go do something else for a couple of days.

Now, the real action starts on Thursday the 27th. That’s when we see the swell pick up a bit and the wind finally swings around to the southeast. By the afternoon, it's looking clean with a gentle offshore breeze. The energy jumps to a moderate 534. That's the signal. Then Friday the 28th morning is the one to circle. We got a glassy, calm morning with a solid 5ft of ENE swell. It's still an 8-second period, so it's a bit short, but the conditions are going to be perfect for the Pass. This is the standout of the first week.

The 29th and 30th have some moments, but the wind gets messy again. We are talking 5ft and 6ft on the Saturday, but the afternoon gets chopped up by a cross-shore. The Sunday has a brief window with a bigger 7ft SSE pulse in the afternoon with a moderate offshore wind giving us a combined energy of 575. That’s got some power behind it, but the period is short and it's a different direction, might get a bit shifty.

After that, the surf gets bigger, but it gets raw. The 31st is looking like a walled-off 8ft with a strong cross-off wind, which is more of a grunt than a groom. That one is definitely for experienced surfers only. The start of September is a bit of a write-off with more onshore winds and messy conditions. We do see a bit of a pulse on the 2nd with a longer-period swell, but the fresh to strong offshore winds make it hard to read.

The second week’s highlight is a bit less certain but has a lot of potential. Friday the 4th of September afternoon. The morning is a total mess of heavy rain and cross-onshore chop, but then it clears out and the wind drops to nothing. It's going to be glassy with a clean 4ft of ENE swell. It’s not the biggest, but if the conditions line up like the forecast says, it will be the cleanest, most perfect session of the whole stretch. As for the water temp, it seems about average for this time of year, so no surprises there.

That’s the look of it. A lot of waiting for a few golden windows. Get on it when it’s clean.

Rusty.

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