The Wedge Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright folks, Rusty here. Let’s have a look at what the next couple of weeks are holding for us. Honestly, it’s a bit of a flat spell, so we gotta be patient and pick our moments.

The best action of the whole forecast is gonna be first up. Monday the 20th of July, The Wedge wakes up with a nice pulse. We’re looking at a clean 6 ft swell rifling in from the east with a solid 11-second period, and the wind is glassy out of the west. That’s prime. The water is sittin' at 65°, which is pretty much bang on average for this time of year, no surprises there. The combined wave energy is solid at (678), so there’s some push behind it. This is an advanced reef break that’s inconsistent, but when it lines up like this on a Monday morning, it’s a proper standout. Just a heads up, it does get crowded sometimes. The morning glass is the window to get on it.

By Monday afternoon, the wind swings around to a cross-onshore from the northeast at 9 mph, and things get a bit choppy. It’s still a 5 ft east swell but the quality drops right off.

Tuesday the 21st is still okay for the early birds. A 4 ft easterly swell, clean with a light north wind giving us a cross-offshore breeze. Not as powerful as Monday, combined energy down to (349), but you’ll still get some fun ones. Afternoon turns into a messy cross-on again.

From Wednesday the 22nd through the rest of the month, it’s a slow decline. The swell fades from 3 ft down to practically nothing. Winds try to help at times – a few glassy or clean moments – but there’s just not enough water moving. Combined energy drops from (197) right down to single digits. It’s a long stretch of knee-high or smaller slop.

Then we hit a real dry spell. From around the 25th of July all the way through to the 2nd of August, there’s basically nothing worth paddling out for. You’ll see some tiny 0.3 ft to 0.7 ft dribble with very low energy, and a lot of it is crossed up or onshore. This is a flat patch.

Now, there’s a little flicker of life very late in the game. On Sunday the 2nd of August, the afternoon shows a 4 ft swell from the SSW, but it’s only 6 seconds – that’s windswell junk – and the wind is a messy cross-on from the northeast. Combined energy is (117), but the conditions are poor. Then into August 3rd and 4th, we get some longer period energy (15 seconds!) from the east, but it’s barely 0.7 ft. That long period might whisper about a groundswell, but the size just isn’t there.

In short: hit it hard on Monday the 20th, because after that, we’re in for a long, quiet stretch. These flat spells happen, and the Wedge can be fickle like that. Keep an eye on the charts, but for now, get that Monday morning session in.

Rusty.

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